A grave in Division 92 depicts a couple lying on a bed, the man keeping watch by the glow of a lamp. Who was he?
The answer
Charles Pigeon had made his fortune with a petrol lamp reputed to be explosion-proof. He had himself sculpted in bed with his wife, notebook in hand, lit by his own invention: a monument that seems to catch the dead in the middle of the night, and one the cemetery counts among its strangest.
This question belongs to the “The Strange and the Paranormal” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.