Paris Catacombs: Bones from the Madeleine Cemetery
The Madeleine Cemetery, which stood in the 8th Arrondissement in Paris, was one of four where victims of the guillotine were buried during the French Revolution. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were buried there temporarily, but now they lie at the Basilica of St. Denis.
The cemetery was named for Mary Magdalene. It opened in 1720 and closed in 1794, purportedly because it was full. Among those buried there were 130 victims of a fireworks accident at the engagement of the dauphin to Marie Antoinette, the Swiss Guards who were killed at the Tuileries, Charlotte Corday, and Madame du Barry, among others. It’s hard to know for certain how many people were actually buried there.
The Paris Catacombs hold the remains of an estimated 6 million people.
“I’m Lestat… Your Lestat. I’m the same Lestat you’ve always known, and no matter how I’m changed, I’m still that same being.” “I know.” “I love you.” “My heart is yours.”
My human death was long finished, I was ravenous, and surely my face was no more than a living skull. No doubt my eyes were bulging from their sockets, and my teeth were bared. The white robe hung on me as on a skeleton. And no clearer evidence of my divinity could have been given to the Druids, who stood awestruck as I came out of the tree. […] The voices were singing in concert around me as the priests placed the flowers in my hair, on my shoulders, at my feet.
…For our fourthannual Vampire Chronicles Secret Santa exchange!
If you participated last year, or participated in any of the other exchanges we hosted after, you should be familiar with how this works. Think Secret Santa, but with no sharing of physical addresses. The gifts given are all shared completely on Tumblr, be it drabbles, fanart, awesome graphics, or what have you. We’ve had great turn outs the past couple of years, and we are definitely looking forward to seeing what great stuff you all submit this year!
If you would like to join:
You can sign up until December 2nd at 11:59PM CST.
By December 7th, we will be assigning all of you your Santas.
Presents must be submitted to the page no later than December 23rd at 11:59PM CST.
Gifts will be posted in a queue throughout the day on December 25.
So, feel free to swing by the rules page, and once you’ve read that through, go ahead and join!
Do the thing, ppl! @wicked-felina and I will be the mods of this event. We saw great turnout last year, and for @monstersinthecosmos & @superhiki‘s #InktoberVC, let’s keep the fanworks momentum going with this year’s @vcsecretgifts exchange <3<3<3</p>
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[The page will be updated for 2017, but for now, go ahead and sign up]
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