The city of Paris did not install street lanterns until the 1500s, but cemeteries across France had light hundreds of years earlier. The people of the 12th century built stone towers with platforms on top, sheltered from the wind but with openings for the light to shine out, to illuminate graveyards.
Most were destroyed during the French Revolution, but around a hundred or so survive to this day. Why was a lantern in a cemetery deemed more…The post The Lanterns of the Dead appeared first on FeedBox.