Père Lachaise Cemetery

It opened in 1804 on a hill in eastern Paris and is named after Father La Chaise, confessor to Louis XIV. At first nobody wanted to be buried so far from the centre, so in 1817 the remains of Molière, La Fontaine and the lovers Abelard and Heloise were moved here, and it became fashionable.

It covers some 44 hectares and holds tens of thousands of tombs. Here lie Chopin, Oscar Wilde, whose tomb is behind glass to stop lipstick kisses, Édith Piaf and Jim Morrison. At the Communards' Wall the last fighters of the Commune were shot in 1871.