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4. Simone Signoret: 1921-1985 and Yves Montand: 1921-1991. Grave of Simone Signoret and Yves Montand in Paris, (c) Paris Discovery Guide. Simone Signoret and Yves Montand were German-born and Italian-born, respectively, French actors who married in 1951 and co-starred in a number of films.
- Jim Morrison. This is perhaps the most famous grave in Paris, although the occupant isn’t even French. Morrison died in a bathtub in Paris, and his gravesite in Pere Lachaise has been a pilgrimage site for Doors fans (and drunkards in general) ever since.
- Napoleon Bonaparte. It shouldn’t be surprising that this one-time French emperor should be buried in Paris. Οr that his famously big ego should be entombed forever in anything but an enormous tomb within a tomb within a tomb.
- Frederic Chopin. A musician of another sort than Morrison, the composer Chopin is also buried at Pere Lachaise; however, rather than gifts of beer and cigarettes, admirers regularly leave bouquets of flowers all over his already lovely grave.
- Louis Braille. This name itself might not be familiar, but the reading system he invented should be. Louis Braille was blind from the age of three after stabbing himself in the eye with one of his father’s woodworking tools.
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Aug 16, 2021 · The recumbent bronze statue of Fernand Arbelot (1880-1942) holding in his hands the face of his beloved. He is remembered for his one desire in death: to forever gaze upon the face of his wife. Arbelot died in Paris during the German Nazi occupation. Bruno De Hogues/Getty Images. Millions of people enter the grounds of Père Lachaise in Paris each year. Some of them never, ever leave.. It is ...
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Nov 9, 2021 · Metro: Line 2 to Père Lachaise for the main entrance or Line 3 to Gambetta for the rear entrance. Pro Tip: Get a map at the administrative building. It includes numbered locations of the famous graves, though the numbering is a bit random. Or print a map in advance. Map of the most famous graves.
Aug 30, 2023 · The first time I went visiting Paris cemeteries I came to Montparnasse to see one grave in particular: Charles Baudelaire. The French poet and author of banned books like Les fleurs du mal, was a transgressive scoundrel, and much more of an influence on me than Jim Morrison. Charles Baudelaire is buried with his family in a simple grave.
Jul 19, 2010 · He died of pneumonia in 1834, and was buried at the Cimetière de Picpus under soil from Bunker Hill in Boston. Today, the Cimetière de Picpus is the largest private cemetery in Paris.
Jul 4, 2013 · One of the two mass graves for the guillotine victims. Just over the wall from Lafayette’s slab tombstone are two pits with simple markers where the bodies of some 1,300 people were mass buried ...
