Cimetière Père-Lachaise, October 30, 2013

Recently when I have been lucky enough to accompany Pat on a business trip to Paris, I endeavour to visit different parts of this beautiful city which are unknown to me. This time I started off with a few peaceful hours in the beautiful and very large cemetery, the world's most visited. As it was close to All Saints' Day, there were many people working on family tombs, cleaning them and changing flowers. A map obtained at the information office in the Rue du Repos helped me get my bearings, though not all the little laneways within the cemetery were marked! First grave I visited was that of the Italian composer, Rossini, 1792-1868:


View down the Avenue Principale towards the main entrance:


The Monument aux Morts:


The Chapel:


View over the city from in front of the Chapel:


Grave of Georges Bizet, composer of the opera, "Carmen", 1838-1875:


French author, Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850:


English author, Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900:


To the memory of those who died in the WWII concentration camp at Auschwitz III-Buna-Monowitz:


To the memory of those who died in the concentration camp at Dachau, which I visited with my mother in the summer of 1973:


To the memory of those who died in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen:


To the memory of those killed in the concentration camp at Buchenwald-Dora:


To the memory of those killed in the concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau:


The grave of Gertrude Stein, feminist, 1874-1946:


The graves of French authors Jean de la Fontaine (left), 1621-1695, and Molière (right), 1622-1673:


The grave of Frederick Chopin, Polish composer and pianist, 1810-1849:


And from our generation, the grave of Jim Morrison of The Doors, 1943-1971:


There you have it, the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise in a nutshell...

Location:Paris, 11e arrondissement