Beautiful Grave But Shes Not Dead | Oscar Wilde | Frédéric Chopin

In addition to the elaborate tombs, there are various monuments dedicate to individuals or groups of people including:

Monuments for foreign soldiers who died for France during WWII
Monuments in the memory of victims of concentration and extermination camps
Monuments in homage to victims of catastrophic aerial accidents
Monuments in homage to victims of June 1848 (the suppression of the Paris working class uprising)
Monument for the genocide in Rwanda

This famous cemetery is the burial site of numerous French luminaries - authors, writers, musicians and more.

A stroll among the graves is an unusual and rewarding lesson in French and international cultural heritage. Honoré de Balzac, Colette, Eugène Delacroix, Raymond Radiguet, Maria Callas and Sarah Bernhardt are among the cemetery’s notable names. The list of famous individuals who are buried here includes 40 singers, 40 composers and 75 painters.

The star-crossed lovers Heloise and Abelard were the first people of note to be buried here in 1817, when the cemetery was still new. The remains of Molière and Jean de La Fontaine were relocated to the adjoining plots the same year, although for various reasons no one knows for certain whether it is really their bones that lie in the graves. Frédéric Chopin’s grave does indeed contain his body, but his heart is buried in Poland. The composer, who was afraid of being buried alive, had asked for his heart to be removed after he died.

A few madeleines placed on the stone by the writer’s fans are a clue that you’ve reached the tomb of Marcel Proust, while the poet Alfred de Musset’s grave site is flanked by a weeping willow, his favourite tree.

Victor Noir, born Yvan Salmon (27 July 1848 – 11 January 1870), was a French journalist. After he was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the French Emperor Napoleon III (r. 1852–1870), Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime. His tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris has become a fertility symbol.






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