Note 168 — Chapter XIX · HISTORICAL PARIS—THE CITÉ—THE UNIVERSITY QUARTER—THE VILLE—THE LOUVRE—THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE—THE BOULEVARDS
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According to Sir Thomas Browne, bodies soon consumed there. “‘Tis all one to lie in St. Innocents’ churchyard as in the sands of Egypt, ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six feet as the moles of Adrianus.”—Urn Burial, p. 351.