Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France

A twenty-minute visit to the world's most famous cemetery, Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. More than a million people have been buried at Père Lachaise, and its tombs are among the most artistic and varied that you'll find anywhere. It's also a quiet, pleasant place for a stroll or a rest—if you don't mind being surrounded by dead bodies.

This video shows how to reach the cemetery, and shows examples of some of the many varied tombs within. It also shows a random handful of "celebrity" tombs, and a selection of memorial monuments. It's not an inventory of famous dead people or funereal art, just a sampler of what you can see at the cemetery—enough to show why it is such a popular tourist destination.

I've included some very simple narration in the closed captions, but it's not very interesting. The actual audio in the video is sound from the cemetery—and the cemetery is very quiet most of the time, so you'll have to crank it if you want to hear anything (mostly wind in the trees).

00:00 Title
00:10 Getting There
02:28 Tomb Aesthetic
07:20 Celebrities
07:26 Musset
07:32 Colette
07:38 Balzac
07:42 Morrison
08:06 Wilde
09:10 Bernhardt
09:32 Signoret / Montand
09:42 Héloïse / Abélard
10:00 Kardec
10:16 Piaf
10:58 Ashes
12:24 Memorials
14:58 The Undead
15:38 Strolls

[Music credit: Dan Phillipson (PRS - CAE: 552254857) / Lynne Publishing (PRS - CAE: 541626758)]

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