Cimetière des Innocents (originally)

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cemetery early modern cemetery

Cimetière des Innocents was a major medieval and early modern Parisian cemetery, notorious for its overcrowding and unsanitary conditions before being closed and cleared in the late 18th century.

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Observed surface forms (2)

Surface form	Occurrences
Cemetery of the Innocents	1
Cimetière des Innocents	0

Statements (62)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cemetery ⓘ early modern cemetery ⓘ
adjacentTo	Église des Saints-Innocents NERFINISHED ⓘ
alternativeName	Cemetery of the Holy Innocents NERFINISHED ⓘ Cimetière des Saints-Innocents NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith	Danse Macabre iconography ⓘ relocation of Parisian cemeteries ⓘ urban sanitation debates ⓘ
bonesTransferredTo	Paris Catacombs NERFINISHED ⓘ underground ossuaries of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ
burialType	inhumation in earth ⓘ mass graves ⓘ ossuary storage ⓘ
city	Paris ⓘ
cleared	18th century ⓘ
closedForBurials	late 18th century ⓘ
continent	Europe ⓘ
country	France ⓘ
demolished	late 18th century ⓘ
hasFeature	Danse Macabre mural NERFINISHED ⓘ arcaded charnel houses ⓘ bone pits ⓘ boundary wall ⓘ central burial ground ⓘ entrance gate ⓘ fountain ⓘ painted murals ⓘ surrounding galleries ⓘ well ⓘ
hasUse	charnel house site ⓘ mass burial ground ⓘ parish cemetery ⓘ
historicalSignificance	example of pre-modern urban cemetery ⓘ influenced cemetery reforms in Paris ⓘ major burial ground of Paris ⓘ
languageOfName	French ⓘ
locatedIn	1st arrondissement of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Les Halles NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris ⓘ Right Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ Île-de-France region ⓘ surface form: Île-de-France
namedAfter	Holy Innocents NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableFor	charnel galleries ⓘ mass graves ⓘ miasma concerns ⓘ ossuaries ⓘ overcrowding ⓘ public health problems ⓘ unsanitary conditions ⓘ
presentSite	Fontaine des Innocents NERFINISHED ⓘ Place Joachim-du-Bellay NERFINISHED ⓘ
reasonForClosure	overcrowding ⓘ public health concerns ⓘ unsanitary conditions ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
replacedBy	market area ⓘ public square ⓘ
timePeriod	Middle Ages ⓘ early modern period ⓘ
usedBy	parish of Saints-Innocents ⓘ residents of central Paris ⓘ
usedFor	Christian burials ⓘ

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Jean de La Fontaine → buriedIn → Cimetière des Innocents (originally) ⓘ

Catacombs of Paris → notableSourceCemetery → Cimetière des Innocents (originally) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Cemetery of the Innocents