Père Lachaise Cemetery

Discussion in 'France' started by Crosslight, Jul 30, 2006.

  1. Crosslight

    Crosslight Banned

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    The most famous and visited cemetery in the world.......and the most visited sepulcre is Jim Morrison's........not Oscar Wilde, or Modigliani, or Bizet, or Apollinaire, or Nadar, or Isadora Duncan, or Max Ernst, or Gay-Lussac, or Chopin, or Maria Callas, or Balzac, or Molière, or Camille Pissarro, or Proust, or Gertrude Stein.....................
    Hippies should be proud...........
     
  2. Miss_Tambourine_Girl

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    been there last year.. lovely place!
    i'd love to be buried there!the grooviest cemetery ever!
     
  3. guy

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    the last time i was there the fuzz was guarding it 24/7
     
  4. Ayesha

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    been there... done that... hahaha
     
  5. Nirali

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    Never been there but pics on the net looks pretty interesting and nice, especially cemetery architecture.
    I want to go there but I think it would be a strange feeling for me that I stay on the ground where was Jim Morrison some years before, even not alive, but he was.
    Place where all of those howling thoughts from fellow-traveller stop on maybe for today.
    Strange energy.
     
  6. OneBrainCell

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    ill be going soon for the first time :)
    dont know why ive never been in my 4 trips to paris :(
     
  7. oiseaulys

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    Non, la tombe de Jim Morrison est seulement la SECONDE tombe la plus visitée. La première est celle d'Allan Kardec ! C'est facile à vérifier : quelle que soit l' heure ou le jour, il y a en permanence une dizaine de personnes devant la tombe, ce qui n'est pas le cas pour Jim Morrison !
     
  8. Mason Grey

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    what does visiting a grave mean to you?


    to me cemeteries/graves are your mind living in and clinging to the past, still wanting to live in memories.
    i know some people who go to their families' gravesites and talk to them,
    still it seems to me like an fixation on your past at the expense of the present (and future)...
    but i don't think it is that way for some people,
    and i would like to understand!
     
  9. oiseaulys

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    Mais le Père Lachaise ce n'est pas qu'un cimetière, c'est un jardin, un des poumons de Paris, on y va se promener...
     
  10. Skop's

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    I want to go to Pere Lachaise at least once in my life.
     
  11. oiseaulys

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    Pour ton dernier voyage ?
     
  12. Skop's

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    Aahahahahah oui, mais ainsi je ne verrai pas avec mes yeux:)
     
  13. oiseaulys

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    Tu habites où en Italie ?
     
  14. Skop's

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    J'abite dans une petite ville dans le Pre-Alps de la Lombardie de l'est, dans la province de Bréscia.
     

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