This is Paris' most prestigious cemetery. The land was bought by Napoleon for the public and received its first customer in 1804.
We stopped at Gambetta Station to enter the higher end of the cemetery as this will allow us to walk downhill in the cemetery
A plan to enable visitors to find the tombs
Tomb of Champollion
Tomb of Jim Morrison
Tomb of Chopin
The main entrance to the cemetery
Visiting cemeteries may not appeal to many tourists. But this is what we enjoy doing. We consider them to be museums of funerary art.
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