The Père-Lachaise quiz
Famous Foreigners
The ten questions in this series
Wilde, Modigliani, Stein: Paris as a final adopted homeland. Each question stands on its own, with its story — or can be played as part of the full series.
- This Italian painter of the School of Paris rests in the same grave as his partner Jeanne Hébuterne, who died tragically barely two days after him in 1920. Who is he?
- This German physician, founder of an alternative medicine based on the principle 'similia similibus curantur', settled in Paris towards the end of his life. Who is he?
- This American writer, author of ‘Black Boy’ and ‘Native Son’, left the United States after the war to escape segregation and settled in Paris. Who is he?
- This Romanian composer and violinist, author of the famous Romanian Rhapsodies, was also the teacher of the young Yehudi Menuhin. Who is he?
- This Iranian writer, author of the novel ‘The Blind Owl’ and an admirer of Kafka, took his own life in a Paris apartment in 1951. Who is he?
- This German painter and sculptor, a pioneer of the Dada movement and later of Surrealism, was briefly married to the collector Peggy Guggenheim. Who is he?
- This British philanthropist began, from 1872 onwards, having dozens of public fountains installed in Paris to offer free drinking water to the poorest residents. Who is he?
- This artist was born in 1902 into a German family in Katowice; his work was condemned as 'degenerate art' by the Nazi regime, which drove him into exile in Paris in 1938. Who is he?
- This painter, one of the founders of Impressionism, was not born in France but on a Caribbean island that was then Danish. Which island?
- 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?