Morbid - Episode 46: The Paris Morgue Mini Morbid

Episode Date: February 14, 2019

Alaina's Mini Morbid takes a walk through the old Paris Morgue where dead bodies were put on display for the public to identify. This wasn't always about the macabre task of identifying the recently deceased though. It became theater. It became a place to see and be seen. Dress in your finest duds and gander at some bloated corpses because this place was happening. Sources: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/paris-morgue-public-viewing https://hauntedpalaceblog.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/the-paris-morgue-dark-tourism-in-the-19th-century/ https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1885/2/25/a-description-of-the-paris-morgue/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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It took hours and hours to write. I rewrote the lyrics at least four times. The harmonies were a little off at first so I fired the backup singer and I just decided to do it solo. And honestly it was the best decision you ever made in your career. Thank you so much. It's touched a lot of people. Like honestly, I'll sign autographs if you guys want. Yeah. Just let me know. Just let her know. I'm so glad that everybody loves it though. I know. I'm so happy that you guys love it. So welcome to Alina's Mini Morbid episode. What's it gonna be this week? I love that we never know each other's this has become a fun thing. It's fun it's really fun. So this week I'm gonna be doing the Paris Morgue. Kind of is it in Paris? No it's in Kentucky. Really? No it's

actually in Paris France. Oh and it's actually not there anymore but it was. So there's a Paris main I think think, so I didn't know. Well, this is the Paris Morgan France, okay? Oh, I want to go to Paris so bad. Same. There's a lot of cool dark tourism stuff there. I just want to go in the catacombs. I want to go in the catacombs.

I just want to go and eat croissants and wear my beret. Same. And go in the catacombs. And wear stripes. And I need to wear stripes. It's important. It's very important. It is.

Do we have any parasolistiners? Any parasolistiners up in the middle? Specifically paras. Yeah. Now let the rest of France, just kidding. We must have friends, those sinners. I know we do, in fact. I can see it on our little stats. So, hi French listeners. I'd like to apologize way in advance for butchering your language because mama took Spanish in high school and I didn't even do well at that. So, I love the French language.

I think it's beautiful and that's why I feel like such a turd right now for what I'm about to do to it. So I apologize. Feel free to yell at me. Let me tell my family story. Do you remember when I was little and I was like, oh yeah, how do you say your name in Spanish? And you said like, oh yeah, you said it fancy. And then I was like, how do you say your name in this language? And you said it fancy and I was like, how do you say your name in French? And you were like, oh, wait a haul.

I do remember. I tell that story all the time. Just the whole whole. Well, you have to understand I take all my French cues from Lumière from Beauty's. So I have a really solid foundation for my French. It's pretty casual if you ask me. Yeah, super casual. So again, we're going to do this. We're going to do this. I'm sorry, totally yell at me French listeners and

People who aren't French go ahead and yell at me because everybody else is anyway Exactly. We can yell that a lot anyway. So go ahead So this is kind of a look into some of the original dark tourism. So the Paris morgue first opened its doors to the public in 1804 on ready. You'll deal us a day. That was good. No French accent to be seen anywhere but give me a try. It's better that you do. And it was there for the purpose of having the public identify bodies that they couldn't identify. Okay.

That was the purpose of the Paris Mourn. Because, I mean, especially back in the day, I mean, even now they have trouble with unidentified bodies, but way back in the day, it's not like they could, they had all these computer systems and stuff that would find people's fingerprints and all that. It's like, they had a body, that was it.

So they didn't know who, no idea, they have no idea who this person is. They need people to come in and look. So right away, this became some kind of weird tourist attraction where people would come just to look, just looky-loose. Looky-loose. There was no private entrance for the delivery of the corpses in this original Paris morgue. So it was just like, they just brought him in the front door. Wow. Like just boom. And it also had a really bad chemical smell and there was a huge population of large gray rats that hung out in the area. So it wasn't super awesome this original one. I just hate rats so much. And just think about like being at this like decaying old morgue with like no refrigeration

and a terrible chemical smell and there's just a bunch of fat gray rats running around. I saw a rat in Boston one time and it ran across my path luckily it didn't touch me. I thought it was a fucking cat at first. They are so big. Oh I can't. I can't. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I can't go on. I'm busy that day. So in the 1850s, bringing a little history into this, Napoleon's prefect of the Senn, Baron George Hossman, decided he was going to redevelop the crowded medieval Il Dela Site to build a more spacious boulevard sabastiple. Yeah. So he was, so basically he was going to redevelop this area where the Paris Morgue was in and he was going to make it more of like a cool downtown kind of area. Okay. So the Old Morg in the heart of medieval Paris was demolished. So in 1864, a new and improved

Morgue was built and it wasn't built in the same area It was built behind Notre Dame cathedral on the Delarche Véche Not sure if I said that right I know it's like L'Arche like it's supposed to be super like French, but I don't have any kind of ability to make any kind of accent work Besides a really bad Australian one, so I'm I apologize any kind of accent work besides a really bad Australian one. So I'm a politician. Okay. In that area now, the parish morgue is not still there, but there's like a World War II memorial at this location now, a little fun fact. But the location of the morgue to be put here,

right behind the North Adam Cathedral, was not an accident. It wasn't like they just picked that place. It was kind of the epicenter of Paris, and it was right next to the Sun, the River Sun. So it was kind of in a good position because all the elements that needed to run were kind of surrounding it because there was the river and the river Sun was where they pulled a lot of bodies. The public was, I mean, it was in a very crowded area, so it was people to come and identify the bodies. The police station was close to solve the crime. And then there were the courts close to bring the suspects.

So it was kind of like exactly where it needed to be. Now this new morgue was way bigger. It had a large, salay day public, which is an exhibition room. That was good when you said public. Public? You have to kind of, you're public. Yeah, you have to make a really, it's just pretty. It's pretty, it's prettier than my voice knows how to go. It's like a certain genocent. Genocic. I don't really even know what that means. Oh my god, you just literally said the line for media and the beast without meaning to. Really? Gaston says she has a certain genocentia or lefus says that and Gaston says, I don't

know what that means. I didn't even need to. I don't like to say. She's so cool. It's pretty. So it had the long, you know, the big salay to public the exhibition room. And it had, you know, starting to get more advanced stuff in it like it had actual rooms for autopsies which is pretty rare. Be hanging out be out. Where I would be hanging all the live long

day and also had offices all it also had offices for the staff it had a laundry room which which is where they they washed the clothes of the dead. Oh, in the laundry room? Because before they were just hanging dirty clothes up to identify these people, but now they would wash them and be like, look, that's what it's supposed to look like without all the gore. That's nice of them. Yeah, that's nice of them.

It also, this is one of the biggest things I think, it also had a more discreet, rear entrance to bring the corpses in. So they weren't just bringing corpses into the front door. I feel like that's better. Yeah, I thought I just feel like that's a good way to do things. I agree. Now, remember, the whole thing that they did, they were making this and when you hear how it was all set up, you'll see that they were making this to really draw the

public in so that they could have more eyes on these corpses to hopefully identify most of them. So in Paris during the medieval period, the Order of Saint Catherine was the one who fulfilled the task of identifying the dead. But later when Louis the Fourteenth took rain, the practice of displaying the dead to identify them started to become the norm. Oh. So before someone else was taking care of it, but once Louis the Fourteenth came in, they were like, why don't we just display dead people and have people try to identify them? Yeah, sounds like a pretty solid idea. Now interestingly enough, the word morgue actually comes from the verb morgue, which means to stare or have a fixed and questioning gaze. Oh, okay.

In 1718, the dictionary, de la academia. Yeah, you have to end it like this. Like a little inflection at the end. It defined the Paris morgue as, quote, a place at the Châtelet, which is a prison. We, we, were dead bodies that have been found are open to the public to view an order that they can be recognized.

And they also said that it had, quote, dead bodies found in the street and also found drowned, which drowning victims made up way like the huge majority of victims in the morgue. Why do you drown? Drowning was like, the scent was like just this apparently like death trap that just people either intentionally jumped in there to drown or I think bodies were just dumped in there. Yikes. It was just an easy place to have like a strong current.

I don't really know. Hey French people, tell us. What's the sound like? Oh, what's the like now? So, um, at the around the time of the 1800s, Paris began to change a little bit. It was, it was kind of becoming a more social city. They were less divided politically. Sigmund Freud actually described it in 1885 as a place where quote, I don't think they know the meaning of shame or fear. The women, no less than the men, crowd-round nudities as much as they do

round corpses in the morgue. Sounds like us. So basically Paris was just becoming like super uninhibited and just things were going good. Yeah. Like socially. Sounds like a party. It does. It sounds like a French party. So obviously people were socializing more in the streets, people were out, and local tourist attractions were starting to gain a lot of steam because people wanted to be out and about and wanted to be mingling and seen and heard. So the morgue became one of those places where you went to be seen. Oh, like that was it was like that kind of place. And because it was open seven days

a week from dawn to 6 p.m. a lot of people became like regulars. Like they would go like it was like a bomb or regular. Like people would go at certain times and it's like you were regular. So just to give a little idea of what what happened when bodies were brought to the morgue. The bodies were first stripped when they arrived there. They were inspected. They were frozen for a short period of time. And then they will wheeled out on black marble slabs for public display. Now, because refrigeration was still touchy at this time, and it really didn't arrive until after this morgue was built, cold water would drip from the ceiling constantly onto the dead body, which would give the skin like a bloated and puffy and like

slimy appearance. Ew. Yeah, and it was just like this dead person laying in front of you in this drip of water just on the red altab, it's like that's so creepy. Yeah, that's weird. The victim's clothing and belongings hung on pegs behind them. So anything that they were found with would hang on a peg behind them. They set up to 50 visitors at a time would crowd around one dead body.

And they said that these bodies were behind huge windows that were like very theatrical windows. And after it's like a museum, it does. And you'll see it. They they were really making it into this kind of thing. use the eel. It does and you'll see it. They were really making it into this kind of thing. And they would usually have to be removed after three days of being displayed because they would start decomposing. Yeah. But by the 1870s photography became a thing and photographs or a wax cast would take the place of the actual body. So you could still look and hopefully identify them. Now, the Paris Morgue ended up being listed as in many of the top travel guide books for Paris. So if you traveled to Paris, this would be in the guide books, so somewhere to go. What the fuck?

Yeah. Charles Dickens was known to be a frequent visitor, in his sense. And in several of his old journals, he described it as, quote, an old acquaintance, and, quote, a strange site which I have contemplated many a time during the last dozen years. Makes sense. Which I believe.

And once you see that, you're definitely going to contemplate it for a few dozen years. Just, you know, for a bit. Emil Zola, who is a French novelist, playwright and journalist, said about the morgue, quote, the mor, for a bit. When the slabs are empty, people leave disappointed, robbed, mumbling under their breath. When the slabs are well furnished, when there is a good display of human flesh, the visitors crowd each other. They provide cheap emotions, they scare one another, they chat, applaud, or sniffle, as at the theater. And then they leave satisfied, declaring that the morgue was a success that day.

What? So that's the, that's like a perfect description of what it was. It sounds like a carnival now. Right. It's like, it's theater. It's literally theater. That's what it is. Now, the popularity and absurdity of this tourist attraction

became fodder for the media at the time as well. Like this was huge in the media. Paresian newspapers would speculate about the identities of different dead bodies. Like kind of like it was almost like tabloid things like, ooh, what's this one? Did they ever like actually identify them? Oh yeah, they would identify people. Like correctly?

Oh yeah, people would be like, oh shit, that's my cousin. Like they'd be like, oh I know that person. Do you think they said that so nonchalantly? Like, oh fuck yeah, there's like oh shit. That's my cousin and they were like cool And they would just take him down and put another one That's exactly what next and again like I said every guidebook Directed them people to the morgue some of the bodies became kind of famous Like they would be like the famous ones and they would draw up to 40,000 people

in a day just to see these bodies. Do you know what I'm getting reminded of right now? Remember, I don't know why I thought of this, but in American Horror Story Hotel, when she goes to visit the body of Gaga, goes to visit the body of, you did a project on him, didn't you? Oh, Rudolf Valentino. Yes. Yes. I'm just picturing like the place where she went to go visit him like as this place. Like all theatrical and dramatic and like yeah. Because she got like super dressed to go there and such. And that's what this was like people would get legit dressed up to go to this like

they would the theater. Like yeah I can totally pick you Yeah, that's exactly it. I love it. And sometimes police would even stage public confrontations between like a suspected murderer in a corpse. They actually did this. They would bring a suspect there and had them face their victim, their supposed victim, and try to elicit a response. Did it work sometimes? Because they thought if they brought them in front of the people that they suspected they killed, that they would have to have an emotional response. And on at least one occasion, it worked. And the dude broke down in confess. Damn.

So that's, so people would go there too to see if that was gonna happen. Like if the police were gonna bring in suspects to... Spark tactic. Like it literally was the case. Was it free to get in? Yeah, totally free. Wow.

So you just show up, get to see all this stuff. And again, if the body on display was like one of the celebrity ones, people would have to wait for hours just to get into the morgue and they would. And in a single day, tens of thousands of people would come to see these celebrity ones. Like, and by celebrity, I mean, like not celebrities, but ones that gained a ton of attention.

Like VIPs. Like there were cases like one was called La Faire Billois in 1876 and another one called The Mr. De La Rue Vertois. And that was in 1886. The first case, La Faire Billois, was a man who dismembered his lover and her body was fished out of the sun in two packages. So she was one that was on display that was a big deal.

I mean, yeah. And the second one was an 18 month old little girl found at the foot of a staircase. Oh, I don't like that. Both. No, I hate that something awful. I wouldn't want to go see that. You know, you have that something awful. I wouldn't want to go see that. You know, you have to say it. I would not want to go see that.

No. It's not. Dead babies are not. Something you want to go see. Yeah, let's talk to it. But both cases were like huge media sensations. So people just, I mean, that first one, I get it. Oh, what I get.

The second one? No, I don't want to see a dead 18 month old. Like who, who is going to see that? I don't understand that. I fucked up individuals. There were billboards and posters that advertise the court, advertise the corpses in the morning. Oh my God.

Yes, no joke. They were displayed between, and so they were behind, like I said, like huge glass windows and these glass windows were draped with long green curtains, like a theater. Green. So it's like these green curtains would shut, and then they would open to reveal the corpse. Wow. So it was like this big theatrical experience. Was this place big?

It was, it was really big. Okay. Was there one body on display at a timer multiple? No, bodies were laid out in two rows of six. Oh, okay. They were all naked, but they would put a cloths covering their bits and pieces. And items, you know, all their other items, like I said, would be on pegs behind them. There were two other cases, or there was one other case called the mystery day soren which was two young girls that had been taken out of the sun and people thought that they might be

sisters. Those two and I think the 18 month olds were actually propped up like posed on chairs instead of just on a slab. That's weird. Like, it was kind of, it was like a tablo. Like, you know, like a scene. Yeah. And I think the two sisters, the ones they thought were sisters at least, I'm not sure if they ever discovered whether they were. They were young too.

So it's like these three little kids. That's scary. Just propped up on chairs. You know, like, that's weird. Now, in the case of the two girls, they actually were misidentified first. Somebody thought they knew who they were, so they were taken off display. But then they figured out that it was a mis identification, and they were put back on display, but they had already significantly

decayed. So people were going in here, and we're seeing these two little girls That how which are ready should mess you up beyond measure, but now it's far past the time when you should be Identifying them. Oh, which just added to just like Spectacle like you know, I mean like it was just another sensation. I think I've never heard of this. I know it's crazy It's really interesting. Now the most famous corpse to come out of the Paris morgue think I've never heard of this. I know it's crazy. It's really interesting. Now, the most famous corpse to come out of the Paris morgue, you might have heard of. I'm not sure.

Ling Kanu, Dela Sen. Ling Kanu Dela Sen. Exactly. She was a woman who was taken out of the sun in the 1880s after she successfully completed suicide. When she got to the morgue, she was so beautiful and at peace. She had this like monolisa smile on her face

when they took her out. That an assistant at the morgue was like so taken with it that he took a cast, like a death mask of her face. Wow. And everyone, you know, you would think that would just be like something that happened. And nobody really hear about it. But the cast has been like a fascination. Like, still is.

And between the 1920s and 1930s, many households actually hung up the death mask of this woman. Like it became a thing that people had in their homes. Like rough look house? And people said many literary works were inspired by her story as well. Wow. Like she became a sensation. And if you look it up, I'll post it on the Instagram.

It really is like an unbelievable. When you look at the mask, she is so at peace. It's like, it really is like a weirdly beautiful mess. But another thing with her is in the 1960s, they used her face as the first CPR dummy, resuscitation Annie. Wow. So, if you've ever taken a CPR class, then you have come face to face with Lan Kunu Dinesen. See, you just had to say it like you believed it.

I did, I really did. And I didn't even look down at the thing for that. I just like, I felt it in my soul, so I just let it out. You felt it from the rooftops. Lumiere just took over my body, you let me say it correctly. But what's interesting to us, obviously, was a public spectacle.

And obviously it was like this crazy thing, the morgue. But Alan Mitchell, in an article called The Paris morgue as a social institution in the 19th century, actually said it also had some positive things associated with, besides identifying bodies. He said it helped to revolutionize forensic medicine and policing and it introduced refrigeration for dead bodies, pioneering forensic photography, and the Paris-Morgh focused on autopsies, so it was also like a force of pushing autopsies forward. So it really

did have a lot of positive things. Where would you be without that Paris morgue? I'm saying. I can thank the Paris morgue. And it finally closed to the public in 1907 over moral concerns. What moral concern? Because all of a sudden, people suddenly were like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a second. This is my mind's carrying. And I want to talk to you, I'm an aja. And I want to talk to your manager. And I want to talk to the manager.

And they were like, you're not from France. You're not from France. And I guess local businesses and people were like, yeah, I'm not really into this anymore. This is starting to freak me out. So newspapers kind of suffer it a little bit when this closed because they kind of have early relied on their columns that focused on these like, who could it be? This body's crazy. Go look at it.

So one journalist said, quote, the morgue has been the first this year among theaters to announce its closings. As for the spectators, they have no right to say anything because they didn't pay. There were no subscribers, only regularsars because the show was always free. It was the first free theater for the people and they tell us it's being canceled. People, the hour of social justice has not yet arrived. Oh, I mean, I think I can I'm just gonna say it. I would definitely definitely be one of the visitors to the Paris floor. Yeah, it was around 100%. And he would definitely drag me with you.

100%. And I feel like a lot of people listening would also feel the same way. Oh, I'd probably go. And that's okay. Like, we don't have to feel like weird monsters because we're interested in this stuff. And I decided to give a little,

just a quick little little tidbit to make us feel better about that. Tell me. Carl Young was a Swiss psychiatrist who founded the idea of analytical psychology. If you've taken a psychology class, you've definitely heard of this dude. Analytical psych basically focuses on the importance of the individual psyche and one's personal quest to feel and become whole as a person. That's basically what that's all about. So he was super influential in his time. It's so influential that Freud saw him as Freud. Freud saw him as kind of the air to his way

of thinking about cyclone analysis. So he was a big deal. Now one of his biggest ideas was the idea of the shadow self. Oh yeah, yeah, I learned about that in in a Yeah, I just got Yeah, and it's he believes it's basically a portion of our personalities that throughout our lives becomes pushed in the shadows of our unconscious. He said, quote, unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is on the whole, less good

than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is in bodies, it's body to the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-eminent intentions. So, he believes that we as a species carry products of our evolutionary growth with us. So, we're animals, like we just, we still are. And as such, we have innate instincts for things like

protecting, you know, sex becomes an evolutionary instinct. Aggression becomes an evolutionary instinct. And he thinks that we still, we carry those things still from way back. And he says, but in order to conform to societal norms, we just repress those instincts and we make the more manageable for society. I like that one. But they're there. That's true. Yeah. So of course these can also be nourished by unconventional upbringings as well. So nurtured definitely can help quell or ignite these things,

but it doesn't create the shadow self because we all have it hidden somewhere. It's always that's what he believes. So he wouldn't believe in total nurture. He would believe in a combo of both. Yeah. And mostly nature, but he would believe that nurture can help it help nurture it. Basically. In fact, people actually complained about the invention of the guillotine in France when it was invented because they believed it was too quick and lacked the drama that they had come to expect the public execution. So think about it. Recently in real life, I remember seeing that there was a story recently that a couple of young girls, I can't remember if they were Dutch or Norwegian, they were beheaded by extremist groups while they were just, they were hiking.

The men filmed it and it made its way onto the internet as most of these things do, like beheadings from extremist groups. I myself had zero interest in watching this. I do not search for that stuff, but I looked at the Twitter reactions because I wanted to see other people who had watched it. I just wanted to see what the reactions were.

I couldn't watch that, I feel. Most of them were people who were asking themselves out loud why the fuck they watched it and why they felt compelled to. Didn't see anyone that was like, oh yeah, that was crazy onto my next life. Most people were literally like, I hate myself for watching that. Like, why did I do that? And they were all questioning it. Like, that. Like, why did I do that? And they were all questioning it. Like, what the hell made me want to do that?

And it just, we're all, all like an odd species. That's just, that's there. We want to see that. Like, we all watched public execution. It's like the same thing as like, why do you turn around and like, look at a car accident. Exactly. Like, why do we, why are we rubber-necking a car accident? Because we want to see the a car accident. Exactly. Like why do we why do we rubber necking a car accident because we want to see the drop the gore. Right. And once you see the gore you might be like,

shit, why did I look at that? Like that just messed me up. But like you wanted to see it. Sure. Something in you was like quick look at that. So I get why you know these people wind up at this morgan. That was it's the same thing as public executions It's same thing as all this stuff and I wanted to go a little further into it But I kind of want to do a mini-sode on this phenomenon like the whole public execution thing So I'm gonna stop here. I liked that one. That's the Paris morgue. That is interesting. Right? I wish it was still there man man I would love to visit France and go see the Paris-Morgue. Yeah it's not there. We'll just sight it's there. We'll just have to go

and eat baguettes. Exactly and go to the catacombs. Yeah. I'll drink some wine. So yeah that was my mini-sode on the Paris-Morgue. I hope you guys dug it. I did. And again, French listeners, come at me, bro. It's fine. Like, I welcome it because I know I butcher a few of those, but I want to let you know that I think your language is beautiful and I trap my buried best. Come at me, Miss you'll come at me, Miss you'll see, I can't even say that, Miss you're like, Monts-Wars. Monts-Wars. Monts-Wars. Monts-Wars. Monts-Wars. Monts-Wars. Monts-Wars. Monts-Wars.

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I don't really remember. I'll just say bye. Yeah. All right. And we hope you keep it weird. But that's a weird that you open a catacombs try to identify dead bodies and like, you know, I don't know that this isn't really that weird for an episode. Bye. Au revoir.

Au revoir. Ciao, Bella. Ciao. Was it that Natalia? Maybe. That was for sure, Natalia. You know what? I'm all killin' it. Killin' it. Hey, Prime members!

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