With more than a million and a half visitors each year this cemetery ranks as one of the most popular tourist destinations in Paris. 

The cemetery is affectionately called "la cité des morts"-the city of the dead -by Parisians.  Numerous celebrities have their resting place here, including Chopin, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, François Truffaut, and Edith Piaf.

 

 

finding comfort in the bosom of death

 

Frédéric Chopin. 

 Polish pianist, composer and long time companion/lover of George Sand.

1810-1849
Cause of death: Tuberculosis

 

".....has left the building"

 

 Wendy at François Truffaut's  grave. 
 An icon of the French film industry, Truffaut directed "Fahrenheit 451" and appeared briefly  in "Close Encounters."

 

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak".

- Longfellow-
Strolling the quiet streets of Pere Lachaise.

 

R.I.P.
Lizard King

 

 Oscar Wilde, Irish novelist, poet and playwright.
October 1854 - November 1900

"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

 

 

 

crawl
 back to the wall