In depth recounting of my global wandering
In the first éditions of the Père-Lachaise Chronicle, I reported on the lives of the two men whose monuments in death, it seemed to me, exceeded their achievements in life – albeit for two quite different reasons. The coming stories …
If you didn’t know that Molière was the stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin before visiting his cenotaph in Père-Lachaise, you’d at least have some idea from reading the marker. I point this out because if you visit the grave site …
Today’s post is the first in a series that will briefly chronicle the lives (or critical aspects of the lives) of six people whose monuments in Cimetière de l’est (AKA Père-Lachaise) I found particularly interesting or whose lives I thought …
Although much about the early life of Héloïse d’Argenteuil (her “surname” is from the convent of Sainte Marie in Argenteuil where she spent much of her childhood and to which she would later return) has been lost to time, the …
On the bus ride up rue de la Roquette David asked if we wanted to start at the top of the cemetery and walk down the hill or enter through the main gate and work our way up. We chose the …