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Cimetière Père Lachaise
16 Rue du Repos, 20th, M° Père-Lachaise or Philippe Auguste
Paris
IIe-de-France
France
01 55 25 85 10
Type: Religious Site
Hours: The cemetery is open daily from 8am to 5:30pm (from 8:30am on Saturdays, and 9am on Sundays and holidays)
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Paris
IIe-de-France
France
01 55 25 85 10
Type: Religious Site
Hours: The cemetery is open daily from 8am to 5:30pm (from 8:30am on Saturdays, and 9am on Sundays and holidays)
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The Cimetière Père Lachaise has been the most fashionable final resting place for Parisians since Napoleon opened it back in 1803. Named for the original landowner, Louis XIV’s confessor Père (Father) la Chaise, the cemetery’s dramatic landscape of funerary sculptures is somewhat softened by the thousands of trees and flowering hedges. Some visitors are content to stroll the peaceful 110 acres randomly to see what they find.
Those looking for a specific grave should pick up a map at the entry, which shows where the more famous residents are buried, including Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf, Chopin, OscarWilde, Sarah Bernhardt, Colette, La Fontaine, Modigliani, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Marcel Proust, and Delacroix. One of the more solemn pilgrimage points is the Mur des Fédérés (Federalists’ Wall, at the southeastern corner of the cemetery), site of the bloody end to the 1871 Paris Commune.
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