Among the most closed places in the capital, this “pavilion of the dead’ opened its doors exclusively at Le Figaro. For a century, hand-picked doctors have examined and dissected corpses to determine the reasons and circumstances of their death.
The residents who parade there in their thousands every year have reached the afterlife in brutal or suspicious circumstances. There, in this red brick building perched on the banks of the Seine, at the Quai de la Rapée, the largest center for forensic research in France.