Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Hilltop cemetery where Paris buries its famous, its forged, and its fallen — all with equal grandeur.
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This guide to Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris opens in 1804, when the newly opened hillside cemetery held just thirteen graves and Parisians wanted nothing to do with it. It follows the elaborate scheme administrators staged in 1817, parading what they claimed were the remains of Moliere and La Fontaine to draw the crowds who made the cemetery famous. From there it reaches Oscar Wilde's tomb, carved by sculptor Jacob Epstein in 1912, and the wall where Communard soldiers were shot in 1871. Wander the eastern paths to find the Mur des Federes.
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