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During my visit to Paris in march i had some time
(about 2.5 hours) to walk around Père-Lachaise
Cemetery
and take a few (100+) photos.

Of course i bought a small map and looked for the
"celebreties" and found most of them (like Balzac,
Chopin, Rossini, Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde,
Proust, Marcel Marceau).

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Père-Lachaise Cemetery is with 48ha the largest
cemetery in the city of Paris, although there are
larger cemeteries in Paris suburbs.

Père-Lachaise is one of the most famous cemeteries in
the world. Located in the 20e arrondissement, it is
reputed to be the world's most-visited cemetery,
attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors annually
to the graves of those who have enhanced French life
over the past 200 years. It is also the site of three
Great War memorials.

Père-Lachaise is located on Boulevard de Ménilmontant.
Métro station Philippe Auguste on line 2 is next to the
main entrance, while the station called Père Lachaise,
on lines 2 or 3, is 500 metres away near a side
entrance.

The cemetery takes its name from Père François de la
Chaise (1624-1709), confessor to Louis XIV, who lived
in the Jesuit house rebuilt in 1682 on the site of the
chapel. The property, situated on the hillside from
which the king, during the Fronde, watched skirmishing
between the Condé and Turenne, was bought by the city
in 1804, laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, and
later extended. The cemetery was established by
Napoleon in 1804.

[from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery]

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