111 years after his death the Irish writer and poet Oscar Wilde has a new grave in the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise. Classified as a historical monument, the ancient tomb had been damaged by the repeated assaults of the poet’s lovers, who had become accustomed to kissing the stone or covering it with graffiti and lipstick. It is now protected by glass walls while a new stele has been unveiled to the public in the presence of admirers, the British actor Rupert Everett and Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde.
In the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise, the tomb of Victor Noir has become over time a symbol of fertility for many women, who regularly come to touch the sex, face and feet of the bronze recumbent. Faced with such behavior, the City of Paris has set up protection barriers but the deputy mayor responsible for parks and cemeteries, Yves Contassot, came in person to remove these barriers and call for respect for graves. An anti-bonapartist journalist, Victor Noir was assassinated in 1870 at the age of 22. He owes his posthumous virility to a sculptor a little too generous as to the representation of his genitals.
On the occasion of All Saints' Day, many visitors go to the cemeteries to adorn the tombs with chrysanthemums. This is the case at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, where the graves of anonymous men and women adjoin those of famous men and women.
Every year, 2 million visitors come to Père Lachaise, the most famous of the Parisian cemeteries, to honour the memory of famous people (Chopin, Edith Piaf, Jim Morisson, Honoré de Balzac.) or simply to wander around the alleys. Meeting with foreign tourists and with Nathalie Delapré, lecturer guide at the City of Paris, who accompanies a group of visitors.
On the occasion of All Saints' Day, visit the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise, where tombs and recumbents of celebrities meet the deceased anonymous.
On the occasion of All Saints' Day, an elderly and limping man goes to the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise to adorn a tomb with chrysanthemums. Moving images set to music.
Gilbert Arnoult, caretaker at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, talks about the stray cats that populate the place in numbers, fed and cared for by "ladies". Formidable hunters of finches and robins, not very sociable, no one or almost can approach them!
In the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise, admirers of singer Jim Morrison come to visit his grave thirty years after his death. They explain why they come to Paris, sometimes from abroad, to pay tribute to the singer. The tomb of the artist is the most visited place.
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