Editing Catacombs of Paris (section)

===Renovation and ossuary decor===
[[File:Catacumbas, París, Francia, 2022-11-01, DD 114-116 HDR.jpg|thumb|320px|right|Wall made of bones]]
Catacombs in their first years were a disorganized bone repository, but [[Louis-Étienne Héricart de Thury]], director of the [[Paris Mine Inspection Service]] from 1810, had renovations done that would transform the caverns into a visitable [[mausoleum]]. In addition to directing the stacking of skulls, femurs and tibias into the patterns seen in the catacombs today he used the cemetery decorations he could find (formerly stored on the Tombe-Issoire property; many had disappeared after the [[French Revolution|1789 Revolution]]) to complement the walls of bones. Also created was a room dedicated to the display of the various minerals found under Paris, and another showing various skeletal deformities found during the catacombs' creation and renovation. He also added monumental tablets and archways bearing ominous warning inscriptions, and added stone tablets bearing descriptions or other comments about the nature of the ossuary, and to ensure the safety of eventual visitors, it was walled from the rest of Paris's [[Rive Gauche|Left Bank]]'s already-extensive [[Mines of Paris|tunnel network]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.catacombes.paris.fr/sites/catacombes/files/editeur/pm_catacombes_depliant_gb.pdf |title=The Catacombs |access-date=2018-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922001315/http://www.catacombes.paris.fr/sites/catacombes/files/editeur/pm_catacombes_depliant_gb.pdf |archive-date=2018-09-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>