Guided tour: the forgotten of Père-Lachaise

Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, 16 rue du repos

Away from the beaten paths and celebrity tombs, a visit to discover people who have been forgotten but who nonetheless marked Parisian and French history. Père-Lachaise Cemetery is known as the cemetery of the celebrities. Yet this vast necropolis hosts many unknown, little-known, and especially forgotten people, while they worked for science, literature… Some also left sinister memories. Sometimes you have to walk down small paths to find the simple grave of a woman with illustrious discoveries whose name has fallen into oblivion, or to discover the unusual grave of a lion tamer. I offer yo…