Pere Lachaise Cemetery

It was Easter Sunday, and for our last day in Paris, Tony and I got up and went to breakfast at a restaurant called, Breakfast in America.  It was a great way to start our day with a traditional American Diner breakfast of 2 eggs, 2 strips of Bacon, and 2 Pancakes - the 2-2-2 at Denny's.

 It is a cute restaurant loaded with American kitsch.  They served diner style coffee, and refilled the cup automatically when it was about half full. How un-European!  The breakfast was good, and as we planned to return to London that afternoon, I joked that if we played it right, we could have breakfast in America, lunch in France, and dinner in England.

 After breakfast, we wandered through the streets of Paris down to Notre Dame.  The scaffolding if finally gone from the building, and it looks magnificent.  It was nice to be down there for Easter Morning.  It felt appropriate.

We wandered around the banks of the Seine before eventually heading off to our main site for the day.  Pere Lachaise Cemetery.













Originally founded by Napoleon as a cemetery for Paris' elite,  it is an atmospheric old cemetary.

I couldn't help but wonder if a lot of the inspiration for the Haunted Mansion cemetery didn't come 








Here one can find the final resting place of playwright  Oscar Wilde.

The world famous French singer Edith Pilaf.

The famous pianist Chopin.

The famous Parisian Architect Haussmann, who designed the grand boulevards.

The great Italian Composer Rossini. 

 

And of course the world famous rock star Jim Morrison.  











There are quite a few memorials to French victims of the Holocaust and the Concentration Camps.  Somber reminders of a time not that long ago. . .

All and all, I found the cemetary an unusual and fascinating place to visit.