The tomb contains the remains of over a dozen family members, including Augustin Jean and Paul. This beautiful bronze sculpture depicting a sorrowful woman holding a picture, presumably of the deceased, is on the tomb of Leon Philippe Beclard who died in Tangier, Morocco while serving as Minister of Finance for Napoleon III.
Division 4. His epitaph: Lord, give me this hope to live again in the melancholy eternity of the book. Just as Irish playwright, novelist, journalist and poet Oscar Wilde achieved immense success and popularity, he was convicted by a British court of "gross indecency with men" and sentenced to two years of imprisonment with hard labor.
Upon his release, he fled for France where he remained in exile until his death from meningitis three years later. Wilde's Egyptian-themed tomb at Pere Lachaise, created by sculptor Jacob Epstein, has sustained damage through the years after visitors started applying heavy coats of lipstick to their lips and then kissing the monument; efforts to clean the stone has caused it to degrade.
A glass barrier erected in has been only partially effective at preventing the kisses, as you can see in the photo above. His grave at Pere Lachaise receives numerous visitors. Miguel Angel Asturias was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in as well as numerous other awards.
He studied at the Sorbonne, lived in Paris for several periods, served as the Guatemalan ambassador to France from , and then lived in Paris as a permanent resident for the rest of his life. He wrote operas for the Paris Opera during the s, and then after a period in Bologna, returned to Paris in where he lived for the rest of his life and held popular musical salons every Saturday attended by musicians and artists including Franz Liszt, Guiseppe Verdi, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Anton Rubenstein, and Joseph Joachim.
Colette born Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was a prolific French writer and stage actress. Her best known works are The Vagabond, which explores a woman's quest for an independent life in a male-dominated society, and Gigi, which was first made into a French film, then adapted for the stage with Audrey Hepburn in the starring role, and finally turned into an Academy Award-winning Hollywood musical.
A dispute between two newspapers, including the one where Noir worked, escalated and led to an altercation when ended with the prince calling Noir and his colleagues "menials," slapping Noir's face, and then shooting him dead. When a court acquitted the prince of murder, an uproar including violent demonstrations took place.
Nine months later, the Emperor's unpopular regime was overthrown during the Franco-Prussian War. Sculptor Jules Dalou created the realistic life-size bronze sculpture of Noir to appear as though he has just fallen in the street. The slight bulge in his trousers has made Noir's grave one of the most popular in the cemetery due to a legend that rubbing it will provide fertility benefits.
Italian composer and child prodigy Luigi Cherubini was best known for his operas during his life, which he mostly spent in France where he was highly acclaimed. Today, you're more likely to hear his church music and in particular his chamber music, especially in the concerts in historic churches that take place in Paris.
Cherubini's large tomb includes a bas-relief sculpture designed by Augustin-Alexandre Dumont showing "Music" crowning a bust of the composer with a laurel wreath. On top of his tomb in Pere Lachaise is a rough-hewn granite monument shaped like a menhir. Beaumarchais born Pierre-Augustin Caron - he added the "de Beaumarchais" for dramatic effect after his first marriage was a renaissance man - a spy, diplomat, musician, inventor, publisher, watchmaker, horticulturist, aspiring slave trader, supplier of drinking water to Paris, teacher, financier, and strong supporter of both the American and the French Revolutions.
Today, Beaumarchais is best remembered for two of his plays, The Marriage of Figaro and The Barber of Seville, which Mozart and Rossini, respectively, turned into operas that are still frequently performed. Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini achieved enormous success during his short life for his many bel canto style operas. Today, he is best remembered for his final masterpiece, I Puritani, which is still performed periodically in Paris.
French opera composer Georges Bizet was just beginning to gain success and widespread recognition when his life was cut short by a heart attack at age His final and best opera, Carmen, is still immensely popular today and much of its music such as "Habanera" and "The Toreador's Song" is instantly recognizable. A stately upright monument on his tomb features a bronze laurel wreath encircling a lyre.
French writer Jean de la Fontaine became famous for his Fables - poetic renditions of tales with a moral twist dating back to the Middle Ages - and his popularity continued long after his death, making his supposed remains ideal for giving the new Pere Lachaise Cemetery the needed cachet to attract other burials.
He was close friends with other leading literary figures of his time, including playwrights Moliere and Racine. For a couple of centuries before Pere Lachaise opened in , Paris graveyards typically small plots next to churches had become so overcrowded that the bodies of everyone except the nobility, high ranking church officials, and the very rich were tossed into common graves. So despite their fame at the time of their deaths, La Fontaine and Moliere had been buried in common graves in the former Les Innocents and Saint Joseph Cemeteries.
The bones that were moved and reburied at Pere Lachaise almost certainly belonged to someone else. The possibly of having one's own burial plot with no bones of strangers mixed in was part of Pere Lachaise's initial promotional campaign. Francis Poulenc was a French pianist and composer whose music spanned a range of genres. He's particularly well-known for his solo piano pieces, much of which is light-hearted and playful in the spirit of Eric Satie, and his religious music.
His compositions are widely performed in Paris concert venues, and around the world. Division 5. American writer who settled in Paris in where she met her life partner, Alice B. Scott Fitzgerald. German-Jewish Gerda Taro born Gerta Pohorylle was a photojournalist and anti-fascist who fled to Paris in to escape the rising antisemitism in her homeland.
When civil war broke out in Spain, she traveled there and photographed from the front lines, publishing her photos under her own name; in some cases, her war photography provided the only testimony to contradict propaganda by the Nationalist forces. She died in an accident during a battle on the front at age 26, and was given a grand funeral in Paris.
Sculptor Alberto Giacometti created the monument for her grave. American writer who focused much of his work on the effects of racial discrimination violence on African Americans. He is best known for his novel Native Son , which he completed with financial support from a Guggenheim award, and memoir Black Boy. American writer as well as confidant, lover, secretary, and cook for Gertrude Stein, who cast Toklas in the role of narrator in Stein's own memoire, "The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas Cookbook," famous during the s hippie culture for its recipe for hashish fudge. Toklas is buried next to Stein. When is the best time to visit Pere Lachaise? Learn about what to expect during each season. Arman born Armand Fernandez, later changed to Armand Pierre Arman was a French-born American conceptual artist renowned during the second half of the 20th century for creating sculptures out of "accumulations" of identical objects such as cellos or cars, and out of garbage.
Along with other artists sharing a similar perspective such as Christo, Jean Tinguely, and Niki de Saint Phalle, he worked to created a "new realism. Lucien Gibert was a major 20th sculptor who created numerous monuments, as well as over medals for the Monnaie de Paris, where he served as director. You can see his work in the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, as well as other museums around the world. He's not well-remembered as an artist today, so if his name sounds familiar to you, that may be cause there is a street and a Metro station named after him in Paris's 15th arrondissement.
The beautiful statue on his tomb represents "Inspiration" and was created by his pupil, Laurent Marqueste, whose works are also at the Orsay as well as in Tuileries Garden, Luxembourg Garden, and other public areas around Paris.
Today, his best-known work is The Raft of the Medusa which you can see in the Louvre - and executed by sculptor Antoine Etex in bronze on the front of his tomb, with a reclining statue of himself perched on top. Italian-born French architect who is best known for designing Napoleon's tomb at Invalides but who also designed several of Paris's loveliest public monuments and spaces, such as Fontaine Moliere in the 1st arrondissement, Fontaine Louvois in the 2nd, and the monumental fountain in Place Saint-Sulpice in the 6th.
Division 4e. French sculptor and painter who created the magnificent Monument to the Dead Aux Morts in Pere Lachaise in , which led to numerous other commissions for funerary monuments. Irish designer, architect, and a leader of the Modern Movement, perhaps best known for her Art Deco furniture designs and rugs.
Her work was "rediscovered" during the last decade of her life, resulting in a new surge of popularity. Belgian painter and botanist best remembered for the vividly life-like botanical illustrations of roses, lilies, and other flowers that he painted with watercolors during a stint as the official court artist for Marie Antoinette and later under the patronage of the wives of Napoleon and the final French king, Louis Philippe I.
French painter famous during his lifetime for supporting Impressionist painters by buying their paintings, and to a lesser degree for his own paintings.
In recent years, Caillebotte's own work has gained new appreciation. The Orsay Museum owns about 40 of his paintings and usually has one of his best known, The Floor Planers, on display along with others. French printmaker and painter Marie Laurencin was a key participant in the Cubist movement in Paris in the early 20th century, working alongside better known male artists of the period such as Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay, Georges Braque, and Francis Picabia.
French political cartoonist at satirical publication Charlie Hebdo, murdered by terrorists during the January attack on the magazine's Paris office. French artist famous for his neoclassical landscape paintings, especially those that embrace the plein-air approach of the early Impressionists. He died a pauper in France and was buried in a modest grave. But he was moved to. It is covered with pink and red kisses from adoring fans. People have written poems and left love notes and have scratched their names into the already once restored gravestone.
It is truly a beautiful tomb. One can always tell when you happen upon a famous grave by the crowd of people. Walking with our heads buried in our map we would look up to see a crowd and rush to take a look at what famous person is buried there.
I will let you read more about it rather than going on in my own words. Abelard and Heloise: The Love The day was grey and raining which made for a perfect setting for a visit to the old cemetery. Look for the crying Musique Statue. Euterpe, the muse of music is seen crying over a broken lute. Another name you might recognize is French Author Marcel Proust. He wrote the longest novel in the world. It was published between and in seven parts! The Cimetiere Pere Lachaise is a fascinating tourist destination in Paris.
Giant mausoleums, chapels and even a pagoda loom in every spare piece of land. Massive monuments tower over crumbling tombstones and rotting graves as giant chestnut trees stand guard overhead. It pays tribute to workers were shot and killed in We missed this during our visits, but if you are looking for it, it is located on the outer pathway of Avenue Circulaire. For some of the graves, it is obvious that their bloodline has ended and their plots have been left to fall apart.
Others have relatives that are alive and well and are maintaining the sites with flowers and sculptures, they are clearing away the debris and even washing the stones to shine brightly. It is impressive to visit Pere LaChaise even without a map. If you are not interested in the famous residents of Cimetiere Pere la Chaise you can still visit the cemetery and be in awe of the artwork on display at this museum of the dead.
Composers, Dukes, and celebrities not only from Paris but from all around the world are buried here alongside normal families are at Cimetiere Pere LaChaise. We strolled through admiring all the graves. Unknown children, fathers, brothers, and sisters have made Cimetiere Pere Lachaise their doorway to the other world.
We were brought back to the reality of the sadness that Cimetiere Pere Lachaise holds when we happened upon a funeral taking place on the path where soldiers that have died for France are buried. Born and raised in the South of France, I have been living in Paris for more than 20 years.
I would be very pleased to be your Paris Ma Belle invites you to go on an adventure in the heart of the capital while having fun! By team of 3 to 8 players, you ParisGayVillage is an association under the French law of which brings together those who wish to get involved in the Explore Paris cemeteries: an unusual visit packed with history and anecdotes. Ten must-see monuments in Paris have gained the French capital worldwide renown. By using this site , you agree to the use of cookies for analytical purposes, advertising and personalized content.
The tradition goes: If you want to find a beautiful lover, you should kiss his lips, if you want to get pregnant, just touch his right foot, if you want to have twins, touch his left foot. A beautiful replica adorns the tomb, similar to as he would have laid dead in the street in his finest suit with his hat fallen beside him. With songs like La Vie En Rose you can listen to her enchanting voice and here the passionate power with which she sings.
Her voice possesses a fast vibrato and lots of emotional sentiment. Listen here. Tartuffe is just one example of his hilarious comedies where he mocks the religious hypocrite. You are free. Perhaps the most famous grave in Paris.
Morrison died in a bathtub in Paris, and his gravesite in Pere Laichase been a pilgrimage site for The Doors fans and drunkards in general ever since. People still share beer with the singer, by pouring half the contents of the can over his grave. It is said that Wilde died in a Parisian hotel.
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