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Cimetière du Père Lachaise
The world's most visited graveyard, Père Lachaise Cemetery opened its one-way doors in
1804. Its 69,000 ornate, even ostentatious, tombs form a verdant, 44-hectare open-air
sculpture garden.
Among the 800,000 people buried here are the composer Chopin, the playwright
Molière, the poet Apollinaire; the writers Balzac, Proust, Gertrude Stein and Colette; the
actors Simone Signoret, Sarah Bernhardt and Yves Montand; the painters Pissarro, Seur-
at, Modigliani and Delacroix; the chanteuse Edith Piaf; the dancer Isadora Duncan; and
even those immortal 12th-century lovers, Abélard and Héloïse.
Particularly frequented graves are those of Oscar Wilde , interred in division 89 in
1900, and 1960s rock star Jim Morrison , who died in an apartment at 17-19 rue Beau-
treillis, 4e, in the Marais in 1971 and is buried in division 6.