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Photos of Dead Numbers

Coffins stored in a General Funeral Services warehouse in the Parisian suburb of St.-Maur-des-Fossés.

Part of the refregerated hall in Rungis, near Paris, where a week ago workers set up cots to receive bodies before burial.

The images of death in France are stunning. This set of photographs from the Times caught my attention cause there aren’t actually any dead bodies in the photos. Just coffins and cots, just symbols of death. Just disembodied numbers, no faces. Over 5,000… from the heat.

There were “165 bodies in an immense refrigerated hall at Rungis, the city’s big fruit and vegetable market, awaiting funerals.”

“Mr. Mazeyrie said that many elderly people were left behind by vacationing families. Some, he said, informed of the death of relatives, postponed funerals so as not to interrupt the Aug. 15 holiday weekend, leaving the bodies in the refrigerated hall. On Wednesday, he said, 10 families came to Rungis to bury their dead.”

Just some inconvenient numbers.

My friend Claire- an expat French Citizen – is coming back to Montreal tomorrow. I’ll see what she has to say… I’m inclined to talk shit about the French Government, but I thought they behaved badly during the (neverending?) Iraq Debate. And LePen, booooo. And the World Cup. Booooo.

Now the Satan picture looks very inappropriate, sorry it’s in reference to the debauchery on St Laurent… He’s a fun Satan. Party Satan.

Posted on Friday, August 22nd, 2003 in Photography.

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Vincent

2003-11-14 08:56:13

I THINK THAT THE CURRENT EVENTS IN IRAK PROVE THAT FRANCE WAS VERY RIGHT TELLING BUSH THAT IT WAS A BAD IDEA. THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION IS NOW TRYING TO CHANGE STRATEGY IN IRAK, REALIZING THAT IT IS OUT OF CONTROL: THEY ONLY WISH THEY HAD LISTEN TO THE “OLD EUROPEANS”.

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Hugh

2004-04-09 13:33:19

“I’m inclined to talk shit about the French Government, but I thought they behaved badly during the (neverending?) Iraq Debate”

Are you still so proud of Superman Bush actions?
What else do you need to be convinced?

God bless a tolerant and responsible america.

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