The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris is the grave of the famous underground in Paris, France. Near the station Denfert-Rochereau, Paris Metro. Opened and the renovated part of a network of underground tunnels and Caverns in the late 18th century, it became a tourist attraction on a small scale, from the early 19th century and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1867. The official name for the Catacombs is Ossuaire municipal l'.
This cemetery covers of Paris' former mines near the Left Bank Denfert-Rochereau, in the same location outside the city gates before Paris expanded in 1860. Although this tomb covers only a small part of the underground tunnel that consists of "les Carrières de Paris" ( "quarries of Paris"), people more familiar with paris refer the entire network as "Catacombs"
Catacombs history began when the late 17 th century Paris, where many people died because of diseases caused by pollution from incomplete combustion by the factories in the French (when the industrial revolution. Due to the number of funerals that inadequate use of the idea of human bones that have been dead on tunnel to the cemetery triggered by Police Lieutenant General Alexandre Lenoir, Catacombs was founded in 1786 and later succeeded by M. de Crosne Thiroux, Charles Axel Guillaumot, Inspector General of Quarries, and Louis-Etienne Héricart de Thury
