Cemeteries & Other Resting Places, Paris

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Paris - Pere la Chaise - Wall
of communars

Pere la Chaise cemetery is well-known for a burial place of communars. We came in a memory of fighters for social justice.
The cemetries of Paris absorbed all they could. The victims, placed side by side, without any other covering than their clothes, filled enormous ditches at the Pere la Chaise, Montmartre, Mont-Parnasse, where the people in pious rememberance will annually come as pilgrims.

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: St.Genevieve de Bois Tip Rating:

on March 22, 2006

Paris - St.Genevieve de Bois-
Prozorov's officers

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It is considered that each Russian tourist should visit this Russian cemetery. Therefore we should execute this rule. It makes an impression of a big site with burial places of officeres of generals Kornilov and Vrangel, and other officers of White Army.

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: St.Genevieve de Bois (cont) Tip Rating:

on March 22, 2006

Paris - St.Genevieve de Bois -
Russian Church

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There is an orthodox church with habitual domes-bulbs at the territory of the cemetery. After the Bruxelles and Parisian gothic style the orthodox church looked rather unusually.
Among tombs of emigrants Ivan Bunin and Andrey Tarkovsky's tombs are considered as the most significant.

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: Cimitière Montparnasse Tip Rating:

By Rojo72

on February 13, 2005

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The tomb of Sartre and
Beauvoir at Montparnasse

OK, so everyone "is supposed" to go to Père Lachaise to see the famous tombs and I've been there too. On my first visit to Paris in 1994 however we went to Cimitière Montparnasse instead. It's pretty much the same, but less people and SMALLER, which is a good thing.

In the cemetery you can for instance visit the tomb of Jean-Paul Sartre and his Simone de Beauvoir. Afterwards you might want to check out Tour Montparnasse nearby or walk up to the Luxemburg gardens.

Directions:
Cimitière Montparnasse is in the northern part of the 14th arr. Metrostations closeby are Raspail, Edgar Quinet and a little further away Denfert Rochereau.

We entered from the south but to my knowledge there are entrances both from north and south.

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: A map of Père La Chaise (french version) Tip Rating:

By Azhut

on December 2, 2003

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Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise est officiellement découpé en 97 divisions.

Vous pouvez entrer dans le cimetière par 5 portes :
Porte principale : (avec l'entrée monumentale) Piétons, Véhicules, Bus 61 et 69, Metro Philippe-Auguste.
Porte des Amandiers : Piétons, Bus 61 et 69, Metro Père-Lachaise.
Porte Gambetta : Piétons, Véhicules, Bus 26, 60, 61, 69 et 102, Metro Gambetta
Porte de la Réunion : Piétons, Bus 76.
Porte du Repos : Accès piétons, Metro Philippe-Auguste.

A : Monument aux Morts.
B : Rond-Point Casimir Périer
C : Ront-Point des Travailleurs Municipaux
D : Mur des Fédérés
E : Jardin du Souvenir

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: James Douglas Morrison grave Tip Rating:

Updated By pieter_jan_v

on January 9, 2005

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Jim Morrison grave

One of the most known graves at the Pere Lachaise cemetery is that of Doors-member Jim Morrison.

Jim went to Paris in 1970 with Pamela Courson. He was upset by the lack of seriousness with which he was taken as a poet. He did not get the wanted inspiration and became severely depressed. On July 3, 1971 Jim was found dead in the bathtub of their Parisian apartment.

His grave became an attraction for his fans and 25 years later at his dying day the police had to use teargas to spread the crowd.

Website: http://www.pere-lachaise.com/

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: Père Lachaise Tip Rating:

Updated By mydreamquest

on August 3, 2005

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Chopin's Burial

Cemetery of many famous people including this grave of Frédéric Chopin, the great Polish piano virtuoso who lived during the romantic era of classical music. He was buddies with Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner.

He is located in section 11, number 5 next to Cherubini.

To get here, it is northeast of the Bastille Station. The station the same name as the cemetery.

If you can listen to all of Chopin's 21 Nocturnes. Walking about Père Lachaise is a perfect setting, especially if it's a cold, rainy, winter morning overcast , to listen to Chopin's Nocturne's. My favorite is his 15th Nocturne in F Minor.

Phone: 01 55 25 82 10

Website: http://www.bonjourlafrance.com/france-tourist-attractions/pere-lachaise-cemetery.htm

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: When your plane arrives to CDG in the morning... Tip Rating:

Updated By morgane1692

on September 11, 2003

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Why are we here???

...and your hotel room isn't quiiite ready yet, just dump your bags and head over to the nearest cemetery for a tranquil walk around the stones and statues and mausoleums. It worked for us back in Jan'96, so I guess my Paris intro was MONTMARTRE CEMETERY here. Just the first in a string of many, many, many happy encounters in this great city over the succeeding years...

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: Montparnasse Cemetery Tip Rating:

Updated By ForestqueenNYC

on May 18, 2007

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Montparnasse Cemetery

Montparnasse Cemetery is very near to Place Denfert Rochereau and the Catacombs so you could combine this trip with the Catacombs, Rue Daguerre, and the park at Denfert Rochereau. Montparnasse Cemetery has many famous people buried in it, including Serge Gainsbourg and Jean Seaberg.

If you have any Parisian roots and you are interested in genealogy, you may find some ancestors buried here also.

Website: http://www.paris-eiffel-tower-news.com/paris-stories/paris-story-montparnasse-cemetery.htm

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	Cemeteries & Other Resting Places: Pere Lachaise Cemetery Tip Rating:

By mabelyn

on June 27, 2003

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Pere Lachaise Grave

The cemetery was unlike any that I have ever seen. I have devoted a section of my site for those pictures. I think most people initially travel to Pere Lachaise for the dead "celebrities" but they soon get sucked in to the beauty of this place of death. It's not a flawless beauty, however, age has taken its toll on Paris' first formal burial ground: Tombs are falling part, mausoleum doors have caved in, statues have been chipped away by the elements and monuments and crosses lie on their side, toppled by age. Only the recent graves have fresh flowers. The rest have been forgotten by time. Jim's grave is tucked away next to two very elaborate graves. It's no more than a sandy pit with a rusted copper plaque.