“A La Mort, On Laisse Tout”: At Death, We Leave Everything.
Les Catacombes de Paris are a maze of Ossuaries which contain millions of skeletons. First built in 1774, they were needed because of the overflowing and increasingly unhygienic cemeteries in Paris.
It was largely forgotten until it became a venue for macabre music concerts in the late 19th century (the most famous one being around the barrel shaped thing in the first photo)
The Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital was originally a gunpowder factory in the 17th century but then morphed into this beast of a hospital. It became the world’s largest on the eve of the French Revolution. The painting on the final image (“A Clinical lesson at the Salpetriere”) shows the time when the clinical lead Jean-Martin Charcot made the hospital renowned for neuropsychiatry. Here he is showing a young lady with “hysteria” to his students which included names like Sigmund Freud, Babinski, Janet, Tourette and many others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #paris #hysteria #architecture #theparisguru #paris_focus_on #parisphotography #parisestmagique #hysterical #parisgram #parismaville #parislifestyle #pariscartepostale #architectureporn #parisianlife #neuropsychology #historyofmedicine #travelawesome #wanderlust #instatravel #francephoto #igersfrance #parisgram #archaddicts #psychiatry #neurology #parisjetaime #igersparis #parisienne #parisian #medicine #hospital (at 13eme arrondissement, Paris) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7S0CQ1FmhB/?igshid=drr9fkrrpjsw