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The Bookseller

A historian’s look at a 19th-century Paris morgue in which the unidentified dead were laid out for public view has been snapped up by Simon & Schuster (S&S), followed by a flurry of multi-publisher auctions across Europe…

National Geographic

In 1870s Paris, expensive plate glass panes meant one of two things: high-end shopping or public spectacle. At la Morgue de Paris, it meant both.Inside, the city’s unclaimed dead lay on tilted marble slabs beneath a trickle of water meant to stave off decay…

BBC Scotland

Catriona Byers is a historian who moonlights as a food stylist. She is an expert on the dark histories of 19th century morgues, but also photographs restaurant pizzas and plates of delicately arranged veg for magazines and food promotions…