No one wanted to be buried at Père Lachaise… until a clever publicity stunt changed the game.

Today, Père Lachaise Cemetery is a sprawling necropolis drawing visitors from all over the globe. Yet, in its early days, no ...
Untapped Cities

The Treasures of the Père Lachaise Cemetery Part II

Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre, Montparnasse, Passy, Père Lachaise, and Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists abound in these cities of the dead.

Did you know? 3 unusual anecdotes about Père Lachaise cemetery

The Père Lachaise Cemetery is Paris’s largest municipal cemetery and one of the most visited in the world. It’s no ...
Radio France Internationale

Migrant fox family allowed to stay in Père Lachaise cemetery post-lockdown

Paris’ Père Lachaise cemetery has decided to let a new family of foxes stay within its walls when it reopens. A fox couple, who moved into the graveyard when the Covid-19 lockdown began, this month ...
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‘It’s an archive of Paris’: Why you should visit Père Lachaise cemetery – with Edith Piaf among famous graves

Steaming coffee in hand, I’m admiring Le Radeau de la Méduse – the Raft of the Medusa – on a crisp morning in Paris. But I’m not at the Louvre, or any of the (many) galleries and museums. Instead, I’m ...
Mental Floss

When France’s Père Lachaise Cemetery Used Celebrity Remains to Boost Business

It’s the worst problem a cemetery can possibly have: No one was dying to get in. In the early 1800s, Parisians were expiring just as they always had, felled by natural causes as well as ailments and ...
The New York Times

Wild and Wilde: At Celebrity Cemetery, Nature Takes on Starring Role

Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife, too. By Constant Méheut ...
Le Monde.fr

Paris' Père-Lachaise cemetery, where the living have found a home among the dead

FeatureBetween its tombs and gravestones, the 43-hectare Parisian cemetery is also a playground for parakeets and foxes, orchids and wild carrots. Its curator, Benoît Gallot, explained how nature is ...
Radio France Internationale

Searching for Jim Morrison's soul in Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris

Many famous people from all over who died in Paris ended up in Père Lachaise cemetery. Jim Morrison, the iconic singer with American rock band The Doors is one such person. Even 48 years after his ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Buried but Not Quite Dead’ Review: Excavating Père Lachaise

Doctors work closely to death. Writers work with an eye to posterity. “I have always loved cemeteries and find them almost as irresistible as bookshops,” the doctor-writer Anthony Daniels observes in ...
Los Angeles Times

Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison live on here: A stroll through Père-Lachaise Cemetery

In 1981 Carolyn Campbell, a publicist at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., took the advice of her mentor, art critic John Russell. Campbell jumped on a bargain flight to France to visit ...