The Père-Lachaise quiz
The Animals of Père-Lachaise
The ten questions in this series
Cats, foxes, stone bees: the cemetery is also a bestiary, both living and carved. Each question stands on its own, with its story — or can be played as part of the full series.
- Which green bird with a loud call, which hollows out old trunks to nest, frequents the trees of the cemetery?
- Which wild mammal, long absent from Paris, was observed again in the capital's cemeteries during the 2010s?
- Which noisy, familiar black bird reigns over the cemetery paths, inspecting everything left lying around?
- Which nocturnal, protected mammal finds refuge in the cemetery's hollow trees and vaults?
- A small spiny mammal, it makes the most of the piles of leaves left at the foot of the graves. What is it?
- Carved on many First Empire graves, this insect symbolises both hard work and immortality. Which insect?
- Lying at the feet of a recumbent effigy, which carved animal signifies fidelity?
- Which carved big cat guards certain graves, a symbol of strength and courage?
- This bird pierces its own side to feed its young with its blood; it appears on funerary monuments as an image of sacrifice. Which bird?
- The famous dog cemetery of the Paris region, one of the oldest in the world, is not at Père-Lachaise. Where is it?