He is more used to handling old stones or wood. But for several days, Florent has been aligning and superimposing new materials, 20 m underground: femurs, skulls and tibias. By the thousands. This mason from the Ile-de-France region is participating in the restoration of a hague, a wall made of bones, located in the catacombs in Paris, not far from Denfert-Rochereau (14th century).
“I was afraid of handling human bones,” confides the craftsman. But ultimately? I feel calm among all these people. » “It’s crazy to think that this person danced, loved, lived,” observes his colleague Loïc, pointing to a shin.