Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

Père-Lachaise Cemetery covers over one hundred acres of hills, marked by thousands of irregularly placed stone monuments, mausoleums, and iron gates draped in tangled ivy. When it opened in eighteen oh four, Parisians refused to bury their dead here because it sat too far from the city center on a hill associated with the poor. To change public opinion, officials transferred the remains of Molière and Jean de La Fontaine to the grounds. Suddenly, everyone wanted a plot among the famous.