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 ...

A cemetery as a tourist attraction? If any city can pull it off, it's Paris. Covering nearly 110 acres of the 20th arrondissement (district), the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is considered one of the most ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Père-Lachaise is one of the most famous cemeteries in the world, featuring graves of some of the world’s biggest stars including ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1981, for the tenth anniversary of his death at the age of 27, a sculpture was installed on the grave of legendary American ...

Benoît Gallot balances the needs of the city with those beating a path to legends such as Oscar Wilde at Père-Lachaise Benoît Gallot, curator of Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery, would like to lay a ...