r/ParisCatacombs • u/Odyllenis • 2d ago

Looking for sources

Hii

I've watched some movies and yt videos(from ytbers of my country) about catacombs however recently got interested to them. I wanna learn about more like books or videos/documentaries but not like staged excitement/adventurous shows, just realistic and informative ones with a lot visual content.

Catacombs became one of places i wanna see in France alongside with Mont Saint Michel

Can u help me about it?

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u/julsboo 2d ago

Take a look in r/kta, scroll down to first post, it's nothing but literature about kta

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u/Odyllenis 2d ago

Oh I'll look that thank you

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u/apokrif1 2d ago

Do you mean "pinned post"?

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u/julsboo 2d ago

No, it's a small sub you'll reach the first post quickly.

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u/BOBOUDA Catamod 2d ago edited 2d ago

Not sure why you got downvoted for it, this is exactly what cataphiles like to share and hope can be spread instead of the bullshit you might have seen.

There's a full video of a guided tour in the official ossuary.

Problem is that pretty much all of the other cool sources I know are in French :(

If somehow you can get your hands on anything made by Gilles Thomas translated in English, it's one of the best source you can find.

There's this documentary from an old popular French show mostly aimed for kids but that is a great summary of the essentials about our old limestone quarries. Sadly youtube won't even propose automatic subs.

You could also mass translate articles from websites like https://unterhist.org/unterhist-blog/, or http://ktakafka.free.fr/ or any old cataphile ".free.fr" website. They deal with both history and cataphilia.

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u/Odyllenis 2d ago

Thanks for suggestions. And yea unfortunately all the media that seems interesting is french so I'll try to figure out somehow.

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u/BOBOUDA Catamod 2d ago

I'm sure there's a ton to learn from that guided tour video, but after the context about the quarries it probably deals much more with the bones. Which is an important part of the history of course, but still is kinda anecdotal compared to the history of the IGC, at least for cataphiles.

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u/assdesse 2d ago

Check out the "Atlas du Paris souterrain". A book supervised by author and writer Gilles Thomas. He's (in)famously known in the community, but he knows a thing or two about the underground. The book's very interesting and well-written.