Los cementerios parisinos y su encanto
Philippe Ariès, in his book El hombre ante la muerte described how French cemeteries during the Middle Ages were not places of grief and sorrow, but of celebration and festivity.
Today, the cementerios parisinos are clear proof that arte knows no limits — not even death is one.
Famous Cemeteries in Paris
In the main Parisian cemeteries, Père Lachaise, the cemetery of Montmartre and that of Montparnasse Quarter, rest great figures of universal culture. Pintores such as Edgar Degas and Gustave Moreau, escritores such as Stendhal and Marguerite Duras, músicos such as Jim Morrison and Frédéric Chopin, and filósofos such as Peter Abelard and Simone de Beauvoir. All find a place in these vast green spaces devoted to eternal rest.
The French artists who designed the tombs took it as a challenge to honor the diseñar obras acordes a la grandeza de las obras de los personajes who would rest within them. This makes a walk through any of these three cemeteries a museum-like experience that reminds us that, while life is brief, art is eternal.
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