Carol Forest

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise. “one of the most famous cemeteries in the world”. Can cemetery be famous?

 

I’m not sure but it’s surely “happening”. It’s as many tourists there as on Champs Elysees, one that is full of life and the deads. Cemetary, somewhere I’d never like to go.  Who the hell would really ? if not only to see our beloved ones?  It only gives me weird complicated feelings and nothing much more than that.  

 

Turning into a tourist in Paris, I somehow found myself in  Cimetière du Père-Lachaise today.  This is a place you won’t visit when you live in Paris.  Well, at least it was for me.

However, it’s surprisingly a very beautiful cemetery with over 300,000 bodies buried there.  You need a map of it to find those you like to pay a visit.  

People I visited were: Frédéric Chopin, Édith Piaf, the long missed Jim Morrison,  the most lovely Oscar Wilde and few more.

Wild Mr. Wilde

I certainly in love with Oscar Wilde and his grave (commissioned by his lover Robert Ross) the most. 

Had a hot red apple in front of his grave and gave him a kiss (on top of billions of others of cause).   Today, I love cemetary! 

 

 

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890. Today he is remembered for his many epigrams, his plays which are still revived, and the tragedy of his imprisonment and early death.  

Few of his quotes I like: I can resist anything but temptation.Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.  Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act I
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
The Model Millionaire, 1912