Can’t fathom how hardcore it would be to find a secret entrance and wander around down there by yourself….

I don’t want to say wrong assesments, but I think that each year, the bones have new companions that lost themselves and never found the exit.

Now just a correction on your translation, actually it’s: “Stop! There, is the empire of The Death”. Not the deads.

On the picture on which you can find the plate underneath “Place Denfert Rochereau”, it says: “Commander of the Domestic French Forces of Ile de France (the region in which Paris is), Chief of the Paris insurrection, Fellow of the liberation”

On the second picture you can read “Pathway leading to the stairs”

On catacombs14.jpg it says: “Bones from the old graveyards of La Trinité and Saint-Leu (located on the boulevard Sébastopol), dumped in 1859 in the western ossuary and transferred in the catacombs in [...] 1859″ I don’t undertsand the date, it might be using the revolutionnary calendar. If another French reads this, feel free to crrect me.

catacombs20: “Where is she The Death? Always future or past. As soon as she’s there that she’s no more.” (presente in french means that she is there but it can also be a pun on the “present” tense, referring to the earlier past and future)

catacombs22: “Quiet, mortal beings ———— Vain greatnesses, quiet. ” and on the bottom: “On the banquet of life, misfortuned (female) guest, I appeared one day and I am dying: I am dying and on my tombstone toward which I am slowly coming, none will come shed tears on it. Gilbert (an old first name)”

Hope it helps you. Sorry for the bad translation but I’m not used to translate old french into old english…

I know I’ve not said a thing on this blog for nearly 5 months but it would have been a pleasure to do this trip with you, especially since I’ve never been down that place.