The Père
Lachaise cemetery takes its name from King Louis XIV's confessor, Father
François d'Aix de La Chaise.
It is the
most prestigious and most visited necropolis in Paris.
Situated in
the 20th arrondissement of Paris, it extends 44 hectares and contains 70,000
burial plots.
The cemetery
is a mix between an English park and a shrine.
All funerary
art style are represented: Gothic graves, Haussmanian burial chambers, ancient
mausoleums.
On the green
paths, visitors cross the burial places of famous men and women; Honoré de Balzac,
Guillaume Apollinaire, Frédéric Chopin, Colette, Jean-François Champollion,
Jean de La Fontaine, Molière, Yves Montand, Simone Signoret, Jim Morrison,
Alfred de Musset, Edith Piaf, Camille Pissarro and Oscar Wilde.
--parisinfo.com
--parisinfo.com
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