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In this video, Jessica the Museum Guide (that’s me!) takes you on a detailed guided tour through the magnificent Pére Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. If you like cemetery tours, watch my tour of Highgate Cemetery next.
https://youtu.be/wNwlsxubs5A
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I only guide in London - but if you are looking for a great guided tour of Père Lachaise, check out this small group tour guided by the Great Sibylle - https://www.getyourguide.com/paris-l16/the-pere-lachaise-cemetery-guided-by-the-great-sibylle-t477930/?ranking_uuid=099f5e9a-150b-450d-92d2-f0c00257c761/?partner_id=41VTBEO
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VIDEO SUMMARY
0:00 - Introduction to the tour
1:58 - Edith Piaf - Singer and Icon
3:22 - Amedeo Modigliani and Jeanne Hébuterne - Painters with a Tragic Story
7:20 - Jane Avril - Dancer and "It Girl"
10:04 - Mur des Féderés - Memorial to a Massacre
10:51 - Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas - Writers and Art Patrons
12:45 - History of Père Lachaise cemetery
16:22 - Moliére - Writer and Actor
17:53 - Jean de la Fontaine - Fabulist
18:19 - Heloise and Abelard - Medieval Lovers
19:40 - Oscar Wilde - Writer and Bon Vivant
22:45 - Cremation and the Columbarium (including Isadora Duncan and Paul Landowski)
24:44 - Maria Callas - Soprano
25:48 - Richard Wright - Writer
27:08 - Sarah Bernhardt - Actress and Icon
29:39 - Holocaust Memorials
30:23 - World War One Memorial Wall
31:43 - Why is "In Perpetuité" written on some of the tombs?
33:39 - Gustave Caillebotte - Painter
37:22 - Marcel Proust - Writer and Philosopher
39:22 - Hubertine Auclert - Human Rights Activist
40:10 - Honoré de Balzac - Writer
41:20 - Eugéne Delacroix - Painter
43:17 - Théodore Gericault - Painter
4433 - La Memoire Necropolitaine
45:12 - Pierre Casimir Perier - Banker and Prime Minister of France
46:00 - Jim Morrison - Singer for The Doors
48:46 - Suzon Garrigues - Languages Student killed at the Bataclan
49:57 - Miguel Angel Asturius - Writer and Nobel Prize Winner
50:16 - Vivant Denon - Egyptologist and Curator at the Louvre
51:56 - Frédéric Chopin - Composer
54:00 - Jacques Louis David - Artist
55:44 - Colette - Writer and Performer
57:50 - Famille Dantan - Sculptors
58:19 - Georges-Eugéne Haussman - City Planner
59:39 - Georges Méliès - Pioneer of Film
1:01:01 - Joseph Crocé-Spinelli and Théodore Sinel - Balloonists
1:03:02 - Georges Seurat - Post-Impressionist Painter
1:04:51 - Victor Noir - Journalist with a Famous Bulge
1:08:09 - Pierre Bourdieu - Sociologist
1:08:44 - Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Painter
1:10:42 - Honoré Daumier - Caricaturist
1:11:22 - Camille Corot - Painter
1:12:15 - Marcel Marceau - Mime
1:13:50 - Jean-François Champollion - Egyptologist who cracked the Rosetta Stone
1:14:51 - Fernand Arbelot - Banker with a famous grave
1:16:03 - Camille Pissaro - Impressionist Painter
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