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l'Ossuaire Municipal
In World War Two, the catacombs were used by the French and Germans as a route to get through to other tunnels of Paris. German soldiers established an underground bunker in the catacombs below Lyce Montaigne, a high school in the 6th arrondissement.
Parts of the catacombs are open for tourist attractions, there are ways to get into the catacombs that are illegal and virtually there is no ways to get out other than the ways you got in. The catacombs are known as 'The Gate Way To Hell',
The Catacombs of Paris or Catacombes de Paris are a famous underground cemeterty in Paris, France.
The reason for why the catacombs were made was because Paris' largest Les Innocents cemetery (near the Les Halles district in the middle of the city) had so many suffering neighbours from the bodies and skeltons that were contaminated caused by improper burials, open mass graces, and decomposing organic matter.
Remains from the cemetery of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs were among the first to be moved. Bodies of the dead from the riots in the Place de Grve, the Hotel de Brienne, and Rue Meslee were put in the catacombs on 28 and 29 August 1788.
The walls of the catacombs are covered with graffiti from the 18th century.
In 1871, communards killed a group of monarchists in one chamber.
