Cemeteries of Paris: Where the French Lay Their Heads
December 29, 2009
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Text by Simone Blaser
It has to be said. There is only a smattering of spots in Paris that have attracted the crème de la crème of French society as steadily and as constantly as the Parisian cemeteries. Cimetière Montmartre, Montparnasse, and Père Lachaise all boast a “who’s who” of French history.
How different it feels to be in a French cemetery! None of the sterility, none of the rows neat like lines of crops, less of the impending doom of the American graveyard. In Paris, cemeteries are like outdoor museums filled with the sculpture-graves of the wealthy and important, myriad unknowns, and of course, intellectual artistic superstars.
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