Exploring Paris’s cemeteries–(Montmartre, Montparnasse, Passy, Père Lachaise, and Picpus)–can be a rewarding task. Artists, statesmen, and industrialists abound in these cities of the dead.

Père Lachaise is world-famous as the resting place of writers, musicians, artists and thinkers. But Benoît Gallot, curator of the storied cemetery, has been sharing pictures of the wildlife that ...

Père Lachaise is still written into art, music and film as a morbidly romantic spot that stars still dream of as their final ...

It’s the worst problem a cemetery can possibly have: No one was dying to get in. In the early 1800s, Parisians were expiring just as they always had, felled by natural causes as well as ailments and ...

A cemetery as a tourist attraction? If any city can pull it off, it's Paris. Covering nearly 110 acres of the 20th arrondissement (district), the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is considered one of the most ...

Benoît Gallot is in the business of dying. As the curator of Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, a role he took on in 2018 at the age of 36, he manages the affairs of one of France’s most sought-after ...

Many famous people from all over who died in Paris ended up in Père Lachaise cemetery. Jim Morrison, the iconic singer with American rock band The Doors is one such person. Even 48 years after his ...

Benoît Gallot balances the needs of the city with those beating a path to legends such as Oscar Wilde at Père-Lachaise Benoît Gallot, curator of Paris’s Père-Lachaise cemetery, would like to lay a ...

In 1981 Carolyn Campbell, a publicist at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., took the advice of her mentor, art critic John Russell. Campbell jumped on a bargain flight to France to visit ...