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Topic: Le Père Lachaise Cemetery

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'A Cemetery Special' Pre Lachaise has spawned some excellent Web sites, including one displays a sophisticate virtual tour system of linked panoramas, but even the lesser Passy Cimetire de Passy would be one of America's best, if it were here. I visited Pere Lachaise back in the 1970s when I was student, and remember it as far more crowded and dense with monuments than most of these American rural gardens which seem to build in space for a "natural" element, but I haven't been there recently and maybe my memory is faulty. Charlottesville, Va.: Is there an American equivalent to the magnificent Pre Lachaise in eastern Paris? www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/discussion/2005/10/21/DI2005102101415.html   (3938 words)

Carol Williams - October Tour 2003 I also visited the immense cemetery of Pre-Lachaise where Chopin amongst other famous people are buried. The console says "Cavaille-Coll Pre et Fils 1840" and this was the all important organ that put Aristide on the map in Paris. Delacroix's apartment, which is now a delightful museum, where he lived while he was in charge of decorating the Chapel of the Holy Angels at St. Sulpice. www.organ.co.uk /carol/tour2003.html   (504 words)

Encyclopedia: Colette Colette is interred in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. Pre 1923 image, not subject to copyright This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright. LEnfant et les sortilèges: Fantaisie lyrique en deux parties (The Child and the Spells: a lyric fantasy for two) is an opera by Maurice Ravel with a libretto by Colette. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Colette   (2290 words)

Communards' Wall The Communards' Wall (French Mur des Fdrs) is a memorial in the Pre Lachaise cemetery, in Paris, France. Against this wall, 147 communards, the leaders of the Paris Commune were shot on May 28 1871 after the fall of the commune. knowallabout.com /c/co/communards__wall.html   (54 words)

December 2002 CDA Journal - Feature Article, Copyright 2002 Journal of the California Dental Association He is buried in the Pre Lachaise cemetery in Paris; and his grave is not only beautifully cared for to this day, but is visited daily by hundreds of theater enthusiasts. It was at that time that his fortunes in the theater rose; and he soon was acclaimed as France’s greatest actor, a position he would hold until his death, probably of cancer, in 1826 at the age of 63. www.cda.org /cda_member/pubs/journal/jour1202/ring.htm   (4810 words)

phantasma_uk.htm The tomb in which Robertson was interred after his death in 1837 can be found at the Pre-Lachaise cemetery in Paris. www.luikerwaal.com /phantasma_uk.htm   (594 words)

Paris MYSTERIOUS : History of le Marais Guide and Description Les 2 Mille Feuilles, 59 rue Francs Bourgeois, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-7.30pm. Today, the ancient village is perhaps the best example of pre-revolutionary Paris where the savvy traveller with rationed time can effortlessly combine culture with commerce, while drinking in the essence of the city. The area claims most of the 3rd and 4th arrondissements, bordering Les Halles and extending to Place de la Bastille. www.parisbestlodge.com /mysteriousmarais.html   (2033 words)

Jacques Louis David He is buried in Le Pre Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France. See also: Prix de Rome, List of people on stamps of Gabon, List of French people, List of painters. knowallabout.com /j/ja/jacques_louis_david_1.html   (81 words)

Adventures in CyberSound: Robertson's Phantasmagoria Paris' Pre-Lachaise cemetery was designed as a 'walk-about cemetery,' a notion based on the English-style gardens which were so fashionable during the Romantic era. Here, the single, guttering candle was quickly extinguished, and muffled sounds of wind and thunder (produced by 'les sons lugubres de tamtam') filled the crypt. (Paris, 1985)(...) Stendhal describes one of Robertson's provincial shows in his Memoires d'un touriste (1838), in the section entitled, Nivernais, le 18 avril. www.acmi.net.au /AIC/PHANTASMAGORIE.html   (3755 words)

Subtle Technologies 2003 Inspired by certain mortuary tumbs from Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, this piece aims to evoque the indivisible dichotomy between movement and inertia, man and machine, real and virtual, life and death. The [Pre] Hysterical Machine has a spherical body and eight arms made of aluminum tubing. It has a sensing system, a motor system and a control system that functions as an autonomous nervous system (entirely reactive). www.subtletechnologies.com /2003/bedlam.html   (609 words)

Cant After lunch, Colleen and I took the Metro (surprisingly easy to use) to Pere Lachaise and saw the "city of the dead." Particularly we stopped at the graves of Abelard and Heloise (swoon for me), Chopin, and Oscar Wilde. Cemetery of Pre Lachaise-More extended visit (part 2) It was really neat, more like a park than a cemetery, or a city evenÂ… Some really weird graves too - I need to find out who Victor Noir was, other than a journalist. www.republic.org /cant/Columns/Wanton_Hussy/10.31.2002.html   (1558 words)

Commentary Magazine - Du Ghetto a L'Occident ["From the Ghetto to the West"], by Charlotte Roland ...She examines the group structure and life of the Yiddish-speaking community living in Belleville, a depressing working-class quarter of Paris, not far from the Pre Lachaise cemetery... www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V37I5P92-1.htm   (1165 words)

Pre Lachaise There are many famous people buried in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Pre Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris, and one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century, Cimetire de Montmartre in the north, Le Pre Lachaise in the east and Cimetire de Montparnasse in the south. www.enlightenweb.net /p/pe/pere_lachaise_1.html   (1165 words)

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