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.

Did you know that a massive pyramid could have stood proudly in the heart of the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris? Here's a look back at a little-known architectural project from the 19th century. Did ...

Paris’ Père Lachaise cemetery has decided to let a new family of foxes stay within its walls when it reopens. A fox couple, who moved into the graveyard when the Covid-19 lockdown began, this month ...

Steaming coffee in hand, I’m admiring Le Radeau de la Méduse – the Raft of the Medusa – on a crisp morning in Paris. But I’m not at the Louvre, or any of the (many) galleries and museums. Instead, I’m ...

Paris city hall is offering a rare chance to be buried among some of history's most celebrated artists. Dec. 31 was the ...

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 ...

Doctors work closely to death. Writers work with an eye to posterity. “I have always loved cemeteries and find them almost as irresistible as bookshops,” the doctor-writer Anthony Daniels observes in ...

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 ...

Père-Lachaise in Paris, whose tombs of Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and many other artistic icons have made it a popular tourist draw, has become a haven for wildlife, too. By Constant Méheut ...

FeatureBetween its tombs and gravestones, the 43-hectare Parisian cemetery is also a playground for parakeets and foxes, orchids and wild carrots. Its curator, Benoît Gallot, explained how nature is ...