Who rests at Père-Lachaise?
Héloïse and Abelard
The oldest tomb in the cemetery shelters the most famous lovers of the Middle Ages.
Voir la ficheEdmond ABOUT
The novelist who made Europe laugh with a tale of Greek brigands.
Voir la ficheFrançois Marie d'ABOVILLE
Two cannon captured from the enemy hold up his tomb.
Voir la ficheAugustin d'ABOVILLE
His stone has him born in 1774; he was born in 1773.
Voir la ficheAndré Joseph ABRIAL
The stone names the son, who died twelve years after him, and not the minister.
Voir la ficheAmédée ACHARD
The Société des gens de lettres raised him a monument.
Voir la ficheEdmond ADAM
His bronze bust, by Aimé Millet, was stolen in 2006.
Voir la ficheMichel ADANSON
The cemetery path bears his name; his grave, no inscription at all.
Voir la ficheEric ADJANI
Assistant to Marguerite Duras, then a portrait photographer.
Voir la ficheMarie d'AGOULT
She gave up everything for Liszt, then wrote the history of 1848 under a man's name.
Voir la ficheAlexandre AGUADO
He lent a hundred million francs to the Spanish Crown and financed Rossini.
Voir la ficheChantal AKERMAN
“Child of a Holocaust survivor”: it is carved on her stone.
Voir la ficheALAIN (Émile Chartier)
The teacher who thought in newspaper columns, and shaped an entire generation.
Voir la ficheFrank ALAMO
The voice of “Biche ô ma biche”, gone off to run a company.
Voir la ficheJean-Paul ALBINET
The first artist to receive an official barcode — and to turn it into a work of art.
Voir la ficheMarietta ALBONI
Rossini's pupil, whose deep voice moved two continents to tears.
Voir la ficheMireille ALBRECHT
Daughter of Berty Albrecht, she spent her life making her mother's voice heard.
Voir la ficheJehanne d'ALCY
The first woman to vanish on screen rests with the man who filmed her.
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