Pere Lachaise Cemetery

During my recent trip to Paris we decided to focus on a different experience than the museums. Which was good considering they were all closed due to a strike! For the New Year we thought about birth, death and renewal. One of our outings was to the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. We saw the graves of Delacroix, Jacques Louis David, Theodore Gericault (my favorite), Moliere and others. It is a beautiful and peaceful place. Even though many of the graves will never be visited individually I thought it was wonderful how the often felt conception of death was twisted around, this cemetery was full of life. People everywhere walking around trying to find a specific person important to them and in the process finding the resting places of people they know nothing about. What a magical place to be put for eternity, somehow no one is ever alone here.
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Pere Lachaise Cemetery