{"id":19960,"date":"2009-12-04T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T04:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=19960"},"modified":"2009-12-05T13:56:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T18:56:23","slug":"ange-and-old-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/ange-and-old-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Old Things in Paris series: Ange and Old Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parisians like old things so much, they even save their old bones. These are probably from the 17th or early 18th century. For many miles, the bones of city dwellers gone by are piled into a tunnel system underneath the streets of Rive Gauche -- the south or left bank. One day Ange and I thought it would be fun to take nudes down there. With a little ingenuity, we managed to be alone long enough to create the pictures. These particular bones are dug out of a church cemetery, during a phase in history when cemeteries around the city were being dug up to get rid of them and make room for the living. The first cemetery to go, Les Innocents, was a series of mass graves on Rive Droight, where more than six million people had been buried or more accurately, thrown, since around the 12th century AD (some accounts say 5th century -- it may have been used before it was consecrated by church authorities). It was a stinking mess, but the church was making a lot of money, a fortune, really, because they had people convinced that you couldn't get into heaven if you weren't buried there. Finally the king decreed that a vegetable and spice market would be built at that location, and starting in 1786, the bones were moved down to some renovated old mines beneath the city. Gradually most of the other old church cemeteries, with a few exceptions, were dug up and the bones were hauled down and eventually stacked, or thrown in heaps behind the neat facade. Some of these piles stretch back for 50 feet, and the tunnel system is so complex that from non-public areas it's possible to wander off and die. The articles below give more details.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Read the story of the Catacombs of Paris<\/strong><\/a> in Wikipedia. Here is an article I just found in Google about how we created the photos<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Read the story of the Catacombs of Paris in Wikipedia. Here is an article I just found in Google about how we created the photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}