THE PARIS MORGUE Dark Tourism, True Crime and Morbid Medicine with Catriona Byers on Sunday the 23rd October 2022 at 1:30 pm The morgue was one of the most infamous ‘attractions’ of nineteenth-century Paris. Located just moments from Notre-Dame, it drew tens of thousands of visitors every day to see the bodies on public display, ostensibly for the purpose of helping the police identify the unknown dead. Not only famous in France, it was written up in guide books across the world as a major tourist attraction (occasionally referred to as “the best free theatre in Paris”) and was visited by famous figures including Charles Dickens, Emile Zola and Sigmund Freud. Catriona Byers Catriona Byers is a writer and historian specialising in urban death, policing, medicine, forensics and photography from the nineteenth-century to the present day. She’s currently working on a PhD at King’s College London, focusing on the morgues of Paris and New York from 1864-1914, alongside research projects relating to interwar crime scene photography, and American pauper cemeteries. She divides her time between London, Paris and New York, and moonlights as a photographer and food stylist alongside her historical research. For more of Catriona’s work, you can follow her on Instagram and Twitter @heymorguegirl, or visit her research and professional websites. |
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