Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre, Montparnasse, Passy, Père Lachaise, and Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists abound in these cities of the dead.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1981, for the tenth anniversary of his death at the age of 27, a sculpture was installed on the grave of legendary American ...

A cemetery as a tourist attraction? If any city can pull it off, it's Paris. Covering nearly 110 acres of the 20th arrondissement (district), the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is considered one of the most ...

PARIS (AP) — Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a place of pilgrimage for fans of the legendary Doors singer and ...

Steaming coffee in hand, I’m admiring Le Radeau de la Méduse – the Raft of the Medusa – on a crisp morning in Paris. But I’m not at the Louvre, or any of the (many) galleries and museums. Instead, I’m ...

Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife, too. By Constant Méheut ...

In 1981 Carolyn Campbell, a publicist at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., took the advice of her mentor, art critic John Russell. Campbell jumped on a bargain flight to France to visit ...

A view of the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris in November 2024 - Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images The city of Paris has announced a lottery with a twist: Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead ...

Doctors work closely to death. Writers work with an eye to posterity. “I have always loved cemeteries and find them almost as irresistible as bookshops,” the doctor-writer Anthony Daniels observes in ...