Cimetiere du Pere-Lachais
The city’s largest cemetary
boulevard de Menilmontant, 20e. The largest cemetery in Paris draws a motley collection of visitors from hippies on the trail of Doors singer Jim Morrison’s tomb to earnest literary types with a choice of Balzac, Colette and Oscar Wilde. Military buffs will find Massena and Ney; arty types, Gericault and Modigliani; theatre folk, Moliere and Sarah Bernhardt; musicians, Chopin and Rossini; romantics, Abelard and Heloise.
