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As you enter the Père Lachaise Cemetery, the mauseleum of Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, the great romantic opera composer, who wrote the famous overture to his "Barbers of Seville" Opera, can be located as you walk straight on the main "road" on the left.
**Updated, September 21, 2005**
Actually, this picture only marks the spot where the great opera composer Gioacchino Rossini was buried. After his death, the Italian government pleaded with France for his body so that he could be re-interred in Florence.
Rossini's remains now rest at San Croce (Holy Cross) Cathedral in Florence with the company of Michelangelo, Machiavelli, Galileo, Ghiberti and many other prominent Italians of the Renaissance period. Leave a Comment
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At the Père-Lachaise Cemetery you will find a large number of celebrities, buried here since 1804, e.g. Honoré de Balzac, Oscar Wilde, Frédéric Chopin and Edith Piaf. One of the more recent celebrities buried here is Jim Morrison of the Doors who died in Paris July 3rd 1971.
Métro: Père Lachaise, Philippe-Auguste Leave a Comment
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Not really 'off the beaten path', but still, not as packed with tourists as the other sites. Try visiting one of Paris cemeteries. This photo was taken in Montparnase cemetery. You'll find quite a lot of Parisians taking a stroll between the tombstones.
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PARIS' CEMETERIES
Visit the cemeteries of Paris: the Père Lachaise Cemetery where Sarah Bernhardt, Balzac, Isadora Duncan, and Edith Piaf are buried; the Montmartre Cemetery, the permanent resting place of Utrillo; the Picpus Cemetery where Lafayette and the descendents of people beheaded during the Revolution are buried (35 rue de Picpus) - and (somewhat more unusual).... the dog and cat cemetery in Asnières. Leave a Comment
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So, you're in Pere Lachaise & you've just visited Jim Morrison's grave. And Frederic Chopin's, Moliere's, Balzac's & Oscar Wilde's, all the biggies. Now, how about someone a bit more obscure? Along the Ave Transversale 2, about halfway btwn the Aves Carette & Grefulhe, you'll find the grave of Victor Noir. He was a French journalist during the mid-1800s who was known for biting sarcasm & wicked humor, (or maybe it was wicked sarcasm & biting humor...) not unlike the aforement'd Oscar Wilde. The grave's on the north side of the road; a compass & good map are a big help. Look for a green-tainted bronze statue of Vic lying down on the stone.
You might notice that certain regions of Vic's body are, uh, um, polished. There's a longstanding legend that Vic's statue has the power to increase fertility. For a short period of time the grave was surrounded by a fence to keep people from, uh, "molesting" the statue but the barriers were removed when enough folks complained. Anyway, take a close look at Vic & you'll see what I mean almost immediately.
BTW, the best map for Pere Lachaise is sold for a few euros outside the entrance to the cemetery near the Pere Lachaise Metro stop. There should be a vendor w/in a few feet of that entrance at the western corner of the cemetery. This map is MUCH more accurate & user-friendly than the one they supply at the office. The better map makes a great souvenir. Leave a Comment
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Suzy Catron née Gozard has no history that I can find, but someone thought this flapper worth remembering.
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More seriously, the reason I found myself at Pere Lachaise on a cold February morning was to visit section 97 where the Holocaust memorials are gathered. My interest in these stems from the unit I teach in my Aesthetics course on memory and memorials and I took many more pictures than these. These memorials come from the period right after the war when memory was still fresh and painful. Leave a Comment
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Below are two mentions Of Georges Rodenback. One is his gravesite in Paris and the other is a portrait of him that hangs in the Orsay Museum. Read his novel called Bruges-la-Morte.... Leave a Comment
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The Père Lachaise Cemetery is probably the largest and most peaceful one in Paris. Many great artists are buried here including Jim Morrisson, Frederic Chopin, Bizet (composer of the opera "Carmen"), Gertrude Stein, Cherubini, Edith Piaf and many others. Leave a Comment
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While atop the Tour Montparnasse, I saw the Montparnasse Cemetery where I'd just walked about trying to find names of important contributers to life.
While looking down, notice the line down the middle which is a road that divides the cemetery in half. To the left of the front half, that is where the famous philosopher of Existentialism, Satre has been laid to rest.
Other famous people buried in Montparnasse Cemetery include the composer of my favorite opera aria "Printemps Qui Commence" Camille Saint-Saens; writer Samuel Beckett, Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1969; Poet Cesar Vallejo (darn! only just realized this :( ); Edgar Quinnet (the street just next to this cemetery; he's a famous historian); Charles Garnier (the architect of the Garnier Opera house and an infamous artistic opponent of the construction of the Eiffel Tower); Composer Cesar Franck; and Andre Citroen (the famous French Automobile maker).
The cemetery is open Daily from about 8-9am until 17:30-18:00.
The guard person working at the cemetery may not speak english. If you cannot speak much French just say: "Carte Sil'vous plais." Leave a Comment Phone: 01 44 10 86 50
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Ok, so, let's go back to your college cinema appreciation class, the one you signed up for enthusiastically because you thought it'd just require you to watch movies & there'd be no extra work, you'd breeze thru it, right? (Ah, what fools we were in college...) So one of the movies that you may have seen might have been "A Trip to the Moon." You know the iconic image; a moon w/a friendly face that's suddenly hit in the eye w/what looks like a bullet (it's actually a spacecraft). The film's director, Georges Melies was a pioneer of special effects in film, the man almost singlehandedly invented trick photography, watch some of his work & you'll see what I mean.
Melies is buried in Pere Lachaise cemetery. You might be stopping by there anyway to see the grave of the guy who's become, at least to every American visitor, the most well-known of the cemetery's residents, Jim Morrison. That's fine, I was on a quest to see Jim's grave myself & I did. I can't really direct anyone to Melies from Jim's grave but here's the way I got there:
Use the entrance near the Pere Lachaise Metro. You'll be on the Ave de l'Ouest. Go straight up to the i/sect of the Ave Circulaire & turn left. Walk up the Ave Circulaire until you get to the monument of the Soldats du Siege de Paris. At that corner, turn left & walk in about 1-2 rows. Turn left again & look for the grave in the photo I've attached to this tip, it has Melies' bust atop. I think he resembled Lenin.
I'd also recommend paying a few euros & buying a more detailed map from a vendor outside the entrance I mentioned above - the map given at the cemetery office is really poor quality. Also, the staff are unwilling to help tourists & there's a sign in the office stating this emphatically. Best way around is w/a tour guide; the cemetery is like a maze of chapel-topped graves, beautiful winding aves & chemins & unmarked pathways.
But it's also the type of place I'd LIKE to get lost in for a few hrs! Leave a Comment
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