Portrait of a female author standing against a brick wall, wearing a green jacket and grey shirt.

Sophia R.

The Zone Rouge: The French Land Declared Unfit for Human Life After World War I

France declared 1,200 square kilometres of its own territory unfit for human life in 1919. A century later, clearing it would take another 700 years.

Read the Article

The Zone Rouge: The French Land Declared Unfit for Human Life After World War I

France

Catacombs, D-Day beaches, and massacre villages frozen in time. France has been the stage for Europe's most decisive violence for over a thousand years.

Paris Catacombs: The City of the Dead Beneath the City of Light

Paris Catacombs: The City of the Dead Beneath the City of Light

Beneath Paris lies a labyrinth built of bones — six million souls arranged in walls of skulls and femurs. The Catacombs are not a cemetery but an empire: the city of the dead beneath the City of Light.