What is the name of the Parisian cemetery at which Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde and Edith Piaf are buried?
"of Piaf's death. Sagapo died at age 34 at the side of the road in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, following an automobile accident on August 28, 1970, in the commune of Panazol. He is buried beside Piaf and her daughter Marcelle (by lover Louis Dupont) in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The motto on their tomb translates as ""Love Conquers All"". Edith's father, Louis Alphonse Gassion (she was born Edith Giovanna Gassion), is also buried in the tomb (his name is engraved on the right side of the tombstone along with Edith's and Théo's). Daughter Marcelle's name is engraved on the opposite"
"Oscar Wilde, French cabaret singer Edith Piaf, and many other poets and artists are also buried. The grave had no official marker until French officials placed a shield over it, which was stolen in 1973. The grave was listed in the cemetery directory with Morrison's name incorrectly arranged as ""Douglas James Morrison."" In 1981, Croatian sculptor Mladen Mikulin voluntarily placed a bust of his own design and a new gravestone with Morrison's name at the grave to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Morrison's death; the bust was defaced through the years by cemetery vandals, and later stolen in 1988. Mikulin"
"Oscar Wilde's tomb The tomb of Oscar Wilde is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying plinth by Charles Holden and an inscription carved by Joseph Cribb. In 1908, Oscar Wilde's literary executor Robert Ross chose Jacob Epstein for the commission of the tomb at a cost of two thousand pounds, which had been anonymously donated for this purpose. Later, in a publication of letters between Ada Leverson and Ross in 1930, ""Letters to the Sphinx"", the anonymous donor was revealed to be Helen"
"the barrier only covers the lower half of the tomb. As Ireland's Office of Public Works considers the tomb an Irish monument overseas, it has paid for the cleaning and the barrier. A number of Epstein's sketches for the work have survived, some in private collections and some in galleries, including a profile of the side view in the Garman Ryan Collection at The New Art Gallery Walsall. Oscar Wilde's tomb The tomb of Oscar Wilde is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. It took nine to ten months to complete by the sculptor Jacob Epstein, with an accompanying"
"Paris. His obituary in ""Le Figaro"" noted that the happiest years of his life were those spent with his wife. They were survived by three children, seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. The remains of her sister, Simone Veil, who was also interred at Montparnasse following her death in 2017, were exhumed and reinterred on July 1, 2018 in the Panthéon after thousands of French citizens petitioned their government to recognize her service to the nation with reburial there (only the fifth women in history to be accorded this honor). Denise Vernay-Jacob was accorded multiple awards for valor, post-war, in recognition"
"Pantin. It was opened at the same time as Pantin, (which is northeast of Paris). Both have similar entrances. Bagneux is the smallest of the three cemeteries serving Paris, but the most active. The cemetery is still open and there are about 10 burials a day. The cemetery is divided into 115 divisions. It is estimated that there are around 83000 graves. The cemetery was the burial place of Oscar Wilde until his remains were moved to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Similarly, Jeanne Hébuterne, the model and artist who was Amedeo Modigliani's lover and mother of his only child,"
"to Paris with Pamela Courson. He had visited the city the previous summer and was interested in moving there to become a writer in exile. Morrison was found dead in a bathtub on July 3, 1971, in Paris by his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Pursuant to French law, no autopsy was performed because the medical examiner claimed to have found no evidence of foul play. The absence of an official autopsy and the death certificate's having no reason of death besides heart failure, have left many questions regarding the cause of death. Morrison was buried in the ""Poets' Corner"" of Père"
"along its length. The Cimetière de Passy, located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing, is the burial place for many well-known persons including American silent film star Pearl White, the painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot, and composer Claude Debussy. Honoré de Balzac lived and wrote in Passy, and his house is now a museum (Maison de Balzac). The apartment in which Marlon Brando trysts with Maria Schneider in Bernardo Bertolucci's 1972 film ""Last Tango in Paris"" was located in Passy. Passy Passy is an area of Paris, France, located in the 16th arrondissement, on the Right Bank. It is"
"have studied her life, including 2007's Academy Award-winning ""La Vie en rose"" — and Piaf has become one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century. Despite numerous biographies, much of Piaf's life is unknown. She was born Édith Giovanna Gassion in Belleville, Paris. Legend has it that she was born on the pavement of Rue de Belleville 72, but her birth certificate cites that she was born on 19 December 1915 at the , a hospital located at the 20th arrondissement. She was named Édith after the World War I British nurse Edith Cavell, who was executed 2"
"Russell (AE), and Oscar Wilde's father, William Wilde, and mother, in addition to members of the Guinness family and deceased members of the Royal Irish Constabulary. The remains of French Huguenots once buried in St. Peter's Churchyard, Peter's Row (now the location of the Dublin YMCA), which was demolished in the 1980s, are interred here. Other famous graves include those of mathematician William Rowan Hamilton and playwright John Millington Synge. The cemetery was operated from 1837 to 1984 by a private company and now belongs to the Massey family. The creation of the cemetery at Mount Jerome in 1836 by"
"of Oscar Wilde and then walk downhill to visit the rest of the cemetery. The cemetery of Pére Lachaise opened in 1804. The cemetery takes its name from the confessor to Louis XIV, Père François de la Chaise (1624–1709), who lived in the Jesuit house rebuilt during 1682 on the site of the chapel. The property, situated on the hillside from which the king watched skirmishing between the armies of the Condé and Turenne during the Fronde, was bought by the city during 1804. Established by Napoleon during this year, the cemetery was laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart and later"
"Cimetière des Rois The Cimetière des Rois (French: ""Cemetery of Kings"") (officially Cimetière de Plainpalais), is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland, where John Calvin (the Protestant reformer), Jorge Luis Borges (the Argentine author), Sérgio Vieira de Mello (the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), Ernest Ansermet (renowned Swiss conductor), and Jean Piaget (the noted developmental psychologist and epistemologist) are buried. The composer Frank Martin, Humphry Davy, Alberto Ginastera, Griselidis Real and Alice Rivaz, editor François Lachenal, Robert Musil and actor François Simon are also buried there. Politicians are also buried there, so is Adrien Lachenal (President of the confederation),"
"interred in 1995. Geneviève de Gaulle-Anthonioz and Germaine Tillion, heroines of the French resistance, were interred in 2015. Simone Veil was interred in 2018, and her husband Antoine Veil was interred alongside her so not to be separated. The widely repeated story that the remains of Voltaire were stolen by religious fanatics in 1814 and thrown into a garbage heap is false. Such rumours resulted in the coffin being opened in 1897, which confirmed that his remains were still present. On 30 November 2002, in an elaborate but solemn procession, six Republican Guards carried the coffin of Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870),"
"the day that Paris was liberated. The cemetery is behind the Trocadéro. Passy Cemetery Passy Cemetery () is a cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The current cemetery replaced the old cemetery (""l'ancien cimetière communal de Passy"", located on Rue Lekain), which was closed in 1802. In the early 19th century, on the orders of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, all the cemeteries in Paris were replaced by several large new ones outside the precincts of the capital. Montmartre Cemetery was built in the north, Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, and Montparnasse Cemetery in"
"of the city, and today sitting in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, is Passy Cemetery. Montparnasse Cemetery is the resting place of many of France's intellectual and artistic elite as well as publishers and others who promoted the works of authors and artists. There are also many graves of foreigners who made France their home, as well as monuments to police and firefighters killed in the line of duty in the city of Paris. The cemetery is divided by Rue Émile Richard. The small section is usually referred to as the small cemetery (""petit cimetière"") and the large section"
"Madeleine cemetery Madeleine Cemetery (in French known as ""Cimetière de la Madeleine"") is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis Cemetery, Picpus Cemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution. In 1720, the parish of Sainte-Madeleine de la Ville-l’Évêque bought a piece of land of approximately 45x19m destined to become the third cemetery of the parish. It became known as the Madeleine Cemetery. The cemetery was closed on 25 March 1794, reputedly because it was"
"Catacombs of Paris The Catacombs of Paris ( ""Catacombes de Paris"", ) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris' ancient stone mines. Extending south from the Barrière d'Enfer (""Gate of Hell"") former city gate, this ossuary was created as part of the effort to eliminate the city's overflowing cemeteries. Preparation work began not long after a 1774 series of gruesome Saint Innocents-cemetery-quarter basement wall collapses added a sense of urgency to the cemetery-eliminating measure, and from 1786, nightly processions"
"20th arrondissement of Paris The 20th (or ""XX"" or ""vingtième"") arrondissement of Paris is the last of the consecutively numbered arrondissements of that French capital city. Also known as Ménilmontant, it is located on the right bank of the River Seine and contains the city's cosmopolitan districts Ménilmontant and Belleville. The 20th arrondissement is also internationally known for the Père Lachaise Cemetery where one can find the tombs of many famous artists. The land area of this arrondissement is 5.984 km (2.31 sq. miles, or 1,479 acres). The population of Paris's 20th arrondissement peaked in 1936, when it had 208,115"
"Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison Wilderness: The Lost Writings of Jim Morrison is a book of poems by Jim Morrison. Jim Morrison, lead singer and lyricist for The Doors, wrote poetry during his life, and especially while in the band. His poetry was inspired by Arthur Rimbaud, William Blake, and many others. In 1971 Morrison went to Paris, France with his girlfriend Pamela Courson, and most of his poetry is dedicated to her. When in Paris he died at age 27. ""Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything, it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can"
"die where the writer of his childhood had also died. L'Hôtel L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. When previously known as the Hôtel d'Alsace, Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in room 16, famously remarking ""I am dying beyond my means"". Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been ""sculpted by a cabinet maker"". The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's ""The Happy Prince"" into Spanish and since then he had"
"L'Hôtel L'Hôtel is a 5-star luxury hotel in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. When previously known as the Hôtel d'Alsace, Oscar Wilde spent his last days there in room 16, famously remarking ""I am dying beyond my means"". Other former residents include Marlon Brando, actress and singer Mistinguett, and writer Jorge Luis Borges, who said it seemed to have been ""sculpted by a cabinet maker"". The hosting of Borges in this hotel was not by chance: when he was nine, he translated Wilde's ""The Happy Prince"" into Spanish and since then he had become a big fan of his work; Borges wanted to"
"Among those reputed to have been ""buried"" here: It is unclear how many corpses were ""buried"": the estimates vary from hundreds up to three thousand. The cemetery was located on the intersection of ""rue d’Anjou"" and the ""Grand Égout"" (now ""Boulevard Hausmann"") in Paris. It was part of the land on which the ""Chapelle expiatoire"", built in the memory of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, now stands. Madeleine cemetery Madeleine Cemetery (in French known as ""Cimetière de la Madeleine"") is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis"
"Montmartre Cemetery Montmartre Cemetery () is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimitière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise cemetery and the Montparnasse cemetery. In the mid-18th century, overcrowding in the cemeteries of Paris had created numerous problems, from impossibly high funeral costs to unsanitary living conditions in the surrounding neighborhoods. In the 1780s, the Cimetière des Innocents was officially closed and citizens were banned from burying corpses within the city limits of Paris. During the early 19th"
"longer be identified, this to the dismay of Louis XVIII, who came looking for the remains of his sister in 1815. The skeletal remains were moved to the Catacombs of Paris between 1844 and 1859 (probably around 1848) when the Boulevard de Courcelles was constructed. Unlike the other major revolutionary cemetery -- the Madeleine Cemetery -- there is no plaque in the Catacombs to indicate the location of the transferred bones. The literal translation of ""Cimetière des Errancis"" is Cemetery of the Wandering.<br> The cemetery is reputed to have had a sign saying: ""Dormir. Enfin!"", French for: ""To sleep. At"
"ossuary, in Père Lachaise cemetery. Plots can be bought in perpetuity or for 50, 30 or 10 years, the last being the least expensive option. Even for the case of mausoleums and chapels, coffins are most of the time below ground. Although some sources incorrectly estimate the number of interred as 300,000 in Père Lachaise, according to the official website of the city of Paris, one million people have been buried there to date. Along with the stored remains in the ""Aux Morts"" ossuary, the number of human remains exceeds 2–3 million. Behind the ""Aux Morts"" (To the Dead) monument"
"numerous personalities from the entertainment world – Guy Bedos, Véronique Genest, Maxime Le Forestier, Jacques Higelin, Brigitte Fontaine, Arthur H, Valérie Mairesse, Hervé Vilard, Irène Jacob, François Corbier, Cali, Sapho, Enrico Macias, François Morel, Costa Gavras. Moustaki was buried according to Jewish rites in a family vault at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris a few meters from the grave of his former amour Édith Piaf. All double albums except for ""Bobino 70"" and ""En live au Troubadour Festival 1995"" which is for download only. Georges Moustaki Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi; May 3, 1934 – May 23, 2013) was"
"The Lost Paris Tapes The Lost Paris Tapes is the title given to a recorded collection of unedited poems and songs by rock musician and poet Jim Morrison of The Doors. Although Morrison intentionally made the recordings, they are considered bootlegs because they were never officially released to the public in their unedited form by Morrison or his heirs. The title of the collection is however a misnomer, because the bulk of the recordings were made in Los Angeles in February 1969; long before Morrison traveled to Paris. Morrison took these Los Angeles recordings with him to Paris, where they"
"as the big cemetery (""grand cimetière""). Although Baudelaire is buried in this cemetery (division 6), there is also a cenotaph to him (between division 26 and 27). Because of the many notable people buried there, it is a highly popular tourist attraction. Divisions 5 and 30 were originally Jewish enclosures and contain many Jewish graves. The main entrance to the cemetery is on Boulevard Edgar Quinet which leads to the big cemetery. There are smaller entrances to both the big and small cemeteries on Rue Émile Richard (near the junction with both Boulevard Raspail and Boulevard Edgar Quinet). Montparnasse Cemetery"
"to the Limoges hospital, where he died as a result of his injuries at the age of 34. He was buried in Paris at Père-Lachaise cemetery alongside Édith Piaf. Inhabitants are known as ""Panazolais"". Panazol Panazol () is a commune in the Haute-Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in west-central France. Panazol is the third largest town in the department (by population), after Limoges and Saint-Junien. It can be considered as a commuter town. Theo Sarapo, the singer, actor, and second husband of Édith Piaf died at Limoges on August 28, 1970 on RD 941 at the Panazol exit, direction"
"in the 2007 film ""La Môme"" also known as ""La Vie en Rose"". Louis Leplée Louis Leplée (April 7, 1883 in Bayonne, France – April 6, 1936 in Paris, France) was a French nightclub owner who discovered the French singer Édith Piaf singing on a Paris street corner in 1935. Leplée starred Piaf at the popular Parisian nightspot Le Gerny's as ""La Môme Piaf"" (The Little Sparrow). Leplée was murdered in his apartment in Paris, on April 6, 1936 a day before his 53rd birthday. Piaf was questioned extensively by the police before being cleared of wrongdoing. There has been"
"went to bed early. She died on Sunday, 10 January 1971, at the Hotel Ritz, where she had resided for more than 30 years. Her funeral was held at the Église de la Madeleine; her fashion models occupied the first seats during the ceremony and her coffin was covered with white flowers—camellias, gardenias, orchids, azaleas and a few red roses. She died in her infamous style, announcing: ""You see, this is how you die."" Her grave is in the Bois-de-Vaux Cemetery, Lausanne, Switzerland. Most of her estate was inherited by her nephew André Palasse, who lived in Switzerland, and his"
"Paris Cemetery The Paris Cemetery in Bourbon County, Kentucky was founded in 1847. When opened, many families re-interred their dead in the new cemetery. The cemetery includes the Bourbon County Confederate Monument and a gatehouse that are each listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Aside from the Confederate Monument, other war memorials in the cemetery honor those who fought in the Mexican–American War, World War II, Korean War, and the Vietnam War. The most notable person buried here is John Fox, Jr., whose novel ""The Trail of the Lonesome Pine"" was the first work of American literature"
"Édith Piaf Édith Piaf (; born Édith Giovanna Gassion, 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French vocalist, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars. Piaf's music was often autobiographical and she specialized in chanson and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include “La Vie en rose"" (1946), ""Non, je ne regrette rien"" (1960), ""Hymne à l'amour"" (1949), ""Milord"" (1959), ""La Foule"" (1957), ""L'Accordéoniste"" (1940), and ""Padam, padam..."" (1951). Since her death in 1963, several biographies and films"