Visite guidée : Les mystères du Père Lachaise

Père Lachaise is the capital's oldest cemetery, the most beautiful with its handsome pathways cherished by the Romantic generation, and the most renowned, as it houses the graves of illustrious figures such as Balzac, Oscar Wilde, Proust, Baron Haussmann, Edith Piaf, the melancholic poet of chimeras: Nerval, or the Doors' brooding singer: Jim Morrison.

It also teems with unusual tombs, and that is what gives it its charm and mystery... Which in times past thrilled Romantics steeped in Gothic lore and nurturing a keen taste for the macabre, turning tables and the supernatural.

During this visit, you will see among others the final resting place of Abelard and Heloise, the tragic lovers reunited for eternity thanks to Alexandre Lenoir, curator at the dawn of the XIXth century, that of Countess Demidoff, the vampire woman with the strange will, that of Robertson, the Grand Master of illusions decorated with skulls and phantasmagoria in the spirit of the Age, that of the Count of Lavalette with his swashbuckling life, that of Allan Kardec the spiritualist, communicating with the spirit of the departed somewhere in the great beyond...