Guided tour: The Women of Père-Lachaise

Cimetière du père-lachaise, 16 rue du repos

Explore Père-Lachaise Cemetery through the stories of about twenty women: the fight for women's rights, arts, resistance, scientific research… There are many ways to visit the Père-Lachaise cemetery. Talking about the women who rest there is one of these angles. Some are well known, others forgotten. Some lived in the 18th century and died in the early 19th, and are among the first buried in the cemetery. Others have been resting there only for a few years. Talking about these women is to dive into the history of women and of France: women artists (painting, dance, writing etc.), women in str…