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Virida, still young, retired from court but remained in Austria the rest of her long life. She outlived all but two of her children, dying at age 63, and was buried at Sittich, Karnten, Austria. sources: Muir, Dorothy. A History of Milan under the Visconti. London: Methuen, 1924. Wheatcroft, Andrew. The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire. NY: Viking ...
Dec 13, 2016 · Viridis died in 1 March 1414 and out-lived at least three of six children, since her younger daughter, Katherine’s date of death is unknown. Viridis is buried in Sittich in Lower Carniola. Source, Wikipedia. Share this: Twitter. Pinterest. Tumblr. Email. LinkedIn. Flipboard.
Nobility, daughter of Bernabo Visconti and Beatrice della Scala. She was married to Leopold III of Habsburg, Duke of Austria and Styria in 1365 and bore him four children.
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1. Jim (James Douglas) Morrison: 1943-1971
Jim Morrison was an American singer/songwriter, the charismatic frontman of The Doors, and an international rock star. He died in here Paris at age 27 under ambiguous circumstances, most likely from a heroin overdose. His longtime girlfriend, Pamela Courson, found his body in the bathtub at the Marais apartment where they were living. More than half a century after his death, Morrison's grave continues to be the most visited site in Père Lachaise. A bronze plaque on his tombstone includes his...
2. Edith Piaf: 1915-1963
Singer/songwriter and actressEdith Piafbegan her career by singing on the streets of Paris before progressing to brothels, nightclubs, and cabarets. She became the most popular entertainer in France after World War II, toured internationally to great acclaim, and performed frequently at the Olympia music hall, the most famous venue in Paris. Piaf's grave is one of the most-visited at Pere Lachaise, and artists still cover her most popular song, "La Vie en Rose," today. (Division 97)
3. Mano Solo: 1963-2010
Mano Solo (born Emmanuel Cabut) was a popular French singer/song writer, guitarist, artist, activist for restoring equality ("Les Enfants de FaZa SoMa" on his tomb refers to his support for indigenous people of Madagascar), and occasional actor and DJ, well known in the avant-garde Paris music scenefor his performances at the Bataclan and Olympia. He died in 2010 at age 46 after battling AIDS for 20 years. (Division 10)
Although Père Lachaise has plenty of spectacular celebrity graves, some of the most memorable funerary art commemorates people not in the public eye, or whose former fame has faded. These may be the tombs you remember best.
24. Oscar Wilde: 1854-1900
Just as Irish playwright, novelist, journalist and poetOscar Wildeachieved immense success and popularity, he was convicted by a British court of "gross indecency with men" and sentenced to two years of imprisonment with hard labor. Upon his release, he fled for France where he remained in exile until his death from meningitis three years later. Wilde's Egyptian-themed tomb at Pere Lachaise, created by sculptor Jacob Epstein, has sustained damage through the years after visitors started apply...
25. Frédéric Chopin: 1810-1849
Plagued by poor health for most of his short life, Polish composer and pianist Frédéric Chopinreceived acclaim during his lifetime for epitomizing the Romantic era, and his reputation has only grown since his death. His grave at Pere Lachaise receives numerous visitors. Jean-Baptiste Clésinger created the statue of Euterpe, Muse of Music, for Chopin's tomb. (Division 11)
26. Miguel Angel Asturias
Miguel Angel Asturias was a Guatemalan poet, novelist, and diplomat who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literaturein 1967 as well as numerous other awards. He studied at the Sorbonne, lived in Paris for several periods, served as the Guatemalan ambassador to France from 1966-1970, and then lived in Paris as a permanent resident for the rest of his life. (Division 10)
43. Arman: 1928-2005
Arman(born Armand Fernandez, later changed to Armand Pierre Arman) was a French-born American conceptual artist renowned during the second half of the 20th century for creating sculptures out of "accumulations" of identical objects such as cellos or cars, and out of garbage. Along with other artists sharing a similar perspective such as Christo, Jean Tinguely, and Niki de Saint Phalle, Arman worked to created a "new realism." His work continues to be seen in large retrospective exhibitions, i...
44. Lucien Gibert: 1904-1988
Lucien Gibert was a major 20th sculptor who created numerous monuments, as well as over 200 medals for the Monnaie de Paris, where he served as director. You can see Gibert's work in the City of Paris Museum of Modern Art, as well as other museums around the world. (Division 61)
45. Alexandre Falguière: 1831-1900
Alexandre Falguièrewas a French artist, best known for his sculpture which you can see today in the Orsay Museum. He's not well-remembered as an artist today, so if his name sounds familiar to you, that may be cause there is a street and a Metro station named after him in Paris's 15th arrondissement. The beautiful statue on his tomb represents "Inspiration" and was created by his pupil, Laurent Marqueste, whose works are also at the Orsay as well as in Tuileries Garden, Luxembourg Garden, and...
66. Héloise
Héloise and Abélardmet when Abélard became Héloise's teacher, and soon fell in love. But after Héloise's uncle discovered their secret marriage and erupted with rage, they were forced to live apart for the rest of their lives, Heloise in a nunnery and Abelard as a monk, only to be finally reunited centuries after their deaths when their remains were dug up and reburied next to one another in 1817 in a beautiful canopy tomb. During their time apart, they became renowned scholars, and today the...
67. Allan Kardec: 1804-1869
Allan Kardec(birth name: Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail) founded " Spiritism" - a belief in the possibility of communicating with the Dead through mediums, seances, and other psychic phenomena. His grave often attracts a crowd - perhaps of people hoping to communicate with the Departed through him. (Division 44)
68. Swami Vijayananda: 1914-2010
Swami Vijayananda (born Abraham Jacob Weintraub), a French atheist who was the son of a rabbi, traveled to India when he was 36, inspired by a book about Hindu philosophy that described the quest to "find God within oneself." After studying Indian Vedic philosophy with a well-known teacher at an ashram, he eventually became her successor at the ashram and a highly regarded teacher and healer user herbal and ayurvedic medicines. Swami Vijayananda wrote numerous books as well as music, and spok...
Paris is rightfully famous for its fantastic cuisine - so if you'd like to pay your respects to those who have helped shape the gourmet fare you can enjoy today, here's who to search for:
75. Félix Faure: 1841-1899
Félix François Faure served as President of France from 1895 until he died four years later, supposedly while having sex with his much younger mistress. While alive, it was said that Faure's best qualification for being President was that he didn't offend anyone. Once dead, the circumstances of his demise inspired a huge outburst of hilarity in the form of puns, double entendres, and wordplays (let's just say that many of them involved French words and synonyms for "pumped up"). It's hard to...
84. Auguste Bain: 1856-1916
Auguste Bain made his enormous fortune as an inventor, manufacturer, and seller of useful cutting devices,including a mechanical razor, shaver, and numerous other items such as a precision egg cutter that made life easier and better for the average person. But after the death from an abscessed tooth of his youngest son Robert at age 13 in 1904, he spent much of the rest of his own life commemorating Robert, who you can see depicted with his dog under a bust of August in the bronze sculptures...
85. JRD Tata: 1904-1993
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhai (JRD) Tata was a French-Indian aviator and businessman who served as president and chairman for the family business, now known as the Tata Group,for 50 years and led it through a period of exponential growth. In 1948, Dadabhai also launched Air India, the country's first international airline, and served as chairman for 25 years. His remains are in the family tomb inscribed with his father's name, RD (Ratanji Dadabhoy) Tata. (Division 88)
91. Monument Aux Morts
Sculptor Albert Bartholomé created this large memorial in 1895, inspired by Rodin's "The Gate of Hell"sculpture. Under the hill behind Aux Mortsare Pere Lachaise's own "catacombs" - an ossuary or common grave containing the bones of Parisians from all over the city as well as abandoned tombs at Pere Lachaise itself. When the catacombs become too full, bones are removed, cremated, and returned as ashes. It is believed that the remains of at least 2 million people (and possibly a lot more) are...
92. Communards Wall - Mur des Fédérés
This simple aux morts plaque commemorates 147 men, women, and children who were massacred by the French army along this wall on May 28, 1871, ending aworking-class coalition known as the Paris Commune that had ruled the city for just over two months during a power vacuum resulting from the Franco-Prussian War. During the week leading up to the executions, battles raged in neighborhoods throughout the city; it is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 Communards were killedby the French army.
93. Monument Commemorating the Communard Revolution Victims
French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier created this poignant wall entitled Victimes des Révolutions on Avenue Gambetta in 1909 to commemorate victims on all sides of the Paris Commune fighting- not to be confused with the Mur des Fédérés, which is specific to the slaughtered Communards.
Most of the thesememorials to combatants from other countrieswho died while fighting for France are near Pere Lachaise's Gambetta Gate.
Leopold was the founder of the branch of the dynasty from which all the Habsburgs of the Early Modern era were to trace their descent. In 1365 at the age of fourteen his brother Rudolf arranged for him to be married to Viridis Visconti, who was about his own age.
Oct 27, 2021 · Before being placed in the chapel, the window was displayed at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris “where it was awarded a gold medal and hence, remains an important example of Tiffany’s...
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