On this Belgian writer's grave, a bronze statue shows him lifting the slab of his own tomb, a rose in his hand. Who is he?
The answer
The author of the celebrated novel ‘Bruges-la-Morte’ (‘Dead Bruges’), the Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach is buried at Père-Lachaise beneath a sculpture by Charlotte Besnard, unveiled in 1902, showing the writer emerging from his tomb, an eternal rose in hand: a tribute to the power of creation, stronger than death.
This question belongs to the “Famous Foreigners” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.