Editing Catacombs of Paris (section)

===Ossuary creation===
The need to eliminate Les Innocents gained urgency from May 31, 1780, when a basement wall in a property adjoining the cemetery collapsed under the weight of the mass grave behind it. The cemetery was closed to the public and all ''intra muros'' (Latin: "within the [city] walls"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intra%20muros |title=intra muros |website=Dictionary.com |access-date=2015-01-06 |archive-date=2014-12-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141206122500/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/intra%20muros |url-status=live }}</ref>) burials were forbidden after 1780. The problem of what to do with the remains crowding ''intra muros'' cemeteries was still unresolved.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

Mine consolidations were still occurring and the underground around the site of the 1777 collapse<ref>{{in lang|fr}} « Par commission du 27 April 1777, M. Guillaumot, architecte du Roi, fut nommé au poste de contrôleur et inspecteur général en chef des Carrières. Signe du destin, une nouvelle maison s'effondra le jour même dans les carrières de la rue d'Enfer ! » [http://geos1777.free.fr/cata_igc.htm Histoire de l'IGC] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181005023246/http://geos1777.free.fr/cata_igc.htm |date=2018-10-05 }}.</ref> that had initiated the project had already become a series of stone and masonry inspection passageways that reinforced the streets above. The mine renovation and cemetery closures were both issues within the jurisdiction of the [[Paris Police Prefecture|Police Prefect]] Police Lieutenant-General Alexandre Lenoir, who had been directly involved in the creation of a mine inspection service. Lenoir endorsed the idea of moving Parisian dead to the subterranean passageways that were renovated during 1782.{{Citation needed|date=December 2015}} After deciding to further renovate the "Tombe-Issoire" passageways for their future role as an underground [[sepulchre]], the idea became law in late 1785.{{Citation needed|date=January 2021}}

A well within a walled property above one of the principal subterranean passageways was dug to receive Les Innocents' unearthed remains, and the property itself was transformed into a sort of museum for all the headstones, sculptures and other artifacts recovered from the former cemetery. Beginning from an opening ceremony on 7 April the same year, the route between Les Innocents and the "clos de la Tombe-Issoire" became a nightly procession of black cloth-covered wagons carrying the millions of Parisian dead. It would take two years to empty the majority of Paris's cemeteries.<ref>{{cite web | title=Paris Catacombs Visitor Information | url=http://www.parislogue.com/catacombs | access-date=2011-02-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806082732/http://www.parislogue.com/catacombs | archive-date=2012-08-06 | url-status=usurped }}</ref>

Cemeteries whose remains were moved to the Catacombs include [[Holy Innocents' Cemetery|Saints-Innocents]] (the largest by far with about 2 million buried over 600 years of operation), [[Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Paris|Saint-Étienne-des-Grès]]<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://darkhistoricalsites.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/catacombs-of-paris_1.jpg |title=Dark Historical Sites: Image |access-date=4 October 2023 |archive-date=2015-12-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208225659/https://darkhistoricalsites.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/catacombs-of-paris_1.jpg |url-status=dead }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2022|reason=Self-published service, consists of one image}} (one of the oldest), [[Madeleine Cemetery]], [[Errancis Cemetery]] (used for the victims of the [[French Revolution]]), and [[Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://en.parisinfo.com/what-to-see-in-paris/info/guides/plunge-into-the-heart-of-the-catacombes-de-paris|title=Plunge into the heart of the Catacombes de Paris - Paris tourist office|access-date=2015-12-07|archive-date=2015-08-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827222743/http://en.parisinfo.com/what-to-see-in-paris/info/guides/plunge-into-the-heart-of-the-catacombes-de-paris|url-status=live}}</ref> By this way the skeletal remains of several notable victims of the French Revolution were transferred to the Catacombs, including (the date is the date of death):<ref>Beyern, B., ''Guide des tombes d'hommes célèbres'', Le Cherche Midi, 2008, 377 p. {{ISBN|978-2749113500}}</ref> 
*[[Charlotte Corday]] (18 July 1793)
*22 [[Girondist]]s (31 October 1793); among them [[Jacques Pierre Brissot]] and [[Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud]]
*[[Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans]] (6 November 1793), father of king [[Louis Philippe I]]
*[[Madame Roland]] (8 November 1793)
*[[Madame du Barry]] (8 December 1793)
*[[Jacques Hébert]] (24 March 1794) 
*[[Georges Danton|Georges Jacques Danton]] (April 5, 1794)
*[[Camille Desmoulins]] (April 5, 1794)
*[[Fabre d'Églantine|Philippe Fabre d'Églantine]] (April 5, 1794)
*[[Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles]] (April 5, 1794)
*[[Lucile Duplessis]] (April 13, 1794), widow of Camille Desmoulins
*[[Marie Marguerite Françoise Hébert]] (April 13, 1794), widow of Jacques Hébert
*[[Antoine Lavoisier|Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier]] (May 8, 1794)
*[[Princess Élisabeth of France|Madame Élisabeth]] (May 10, 1794), sister of kings [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]], [[Louis XVIII of France|Louis XVIII]] and [[Charles X of France|Charles X]]
*[[François Hanriot]] (July 28, 1794)
*[[Maximilien Robespierre]] (July 28, 1794)
*[[Louis Antoine de Saint-Just]] (July 28, 1794)
*[[Georges Couthon]] (July 28, 1794)
*[[Antoine Simon]] (July 28, 1794)