Erin-Marie Legacey is Assistant Professor of French History at Texas Tech University.

Making Space for the Dead,[is] a book that will make a deep and long-lasting impact on the cultural history of the French Revolution.(Leonardo Reviews) Legacey advances a focused and unusually powerful argument about the changes in Parisian cemetery culture during the Revolution and in its lingering aftermath. [Her] book draws attention to a fascinating aspect of French history, and,,, it holds its place among recent works on material culture in nineteenth-century Paris.(H-France) The book is written beautifully and with a light touch, in spite of its somber subject... Legacey is to be congratulated for making a significant contribution to our understanding of how Parisians struggled to reimagine their social and moral worlds after the Revolution.(Journal of Modern History)

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: The Revolution of the Dead1. The Problem of the Dead: In which the French Revolution interrupts and intervenes in Paris's preexisting burial crisis.2. The Solution of the Dead: In which a range of experts and amateurs imagine a new burial culture for Paris after the Terror.3. The City of the Dead: In which Parisians visit and respond to their city's new burial space, Père Lachaise Cemetery.4. The Empire of the Dead: In which thousands of visitors descend ninety feet below the city to tour the newly opened Paris Catacombs.5. The Museum of the Dead: In which the artist and administrator Alexandre Lenoir displays the dead as history in the Museumof French Monuments.Conclusion: The Historian of the Dead: In which the Romantic historian Jules Michelet resurrects the history of France in Parisian spaces for the dead.NotesBibliographyIndex