Pere Lachiase

I am very behind on blogging. We have had so much going on that there has been very little time to document what has been happening. This post has been sitting in the drafts section for a while. We went here way back in March. After our Andorra trip we kind of planned different outings to do each weekend because our time in Paris is running out!

Pere Lachiase Cemetery. Sounds kind of creepy and morbid and why would you want to spend a Saturday walking around there? Well you really want to go there because first a lot of famous people through out history are buried here, second it is really pretty. The most ornate tombs and graves I have ever seen are here. The place is huge! You can get lost so easily and spend hours wondering around, which is not so bad because this place is really cool. The kiddos and I went here with out Lyndon when we first got to Paris and had such a good time we went back. Plus, we knew Daddy would love seeing this place. It is not stroller friendly so if you plan on going with babies leave the stroller at home. The paths are all cobble stone which makes it a bumpy ride for the littles and hard to push the stroller around. 

When we went with Daddy we focused more on seeing all the famous people. We saw some pretty good ones too. 

Lyndon was especially excited to visit David's grave. He is a big fan of his work. We got to see several of his paintings in the Louvre while there.

Rossini!

Oscar Wilde's monuument. He is not burried here, but there is this memorial to him. It is surrounded by a glass wall so that fans cannot get in. Apparently there have been several incidences with female fans prostrating themselves on the monument and other weird stuff.  

Gertrude Stein. I would have loved to be in Paris in the twenties when she was here. 

I was especially excited to se Moliere's tomb. Lyndon and I saw a couple of entertaining plays written by him while we were dating and newly married. I really liked the plays so hence my excitement to see his tomb. 

Chopin. 

The main attraction at Pere Lachise I would have to say is Jim Morrison's grave. Both times I went it was covered in flowers and people all around it with the aroma of mary jane wafting through the air. We did not linger long. 

This place had the coolest architecture, if you consider tombs and graves architecture. This  building was especially nest. It looked kind of Gaelic. 

This place goes on and on forever. It was a lot of fun to explore and see the different types of graves/tombs. 

This day was one of the more beautiful days we had had in a while. The sun was out, the weather fine, I think we could officially call it spring time.

We saw this engraving while walking around and I thought it very poignant. 

There are "street" signs posted around the cemetary and for good reason because it is huge! 

Cosette ran up to this one and asked to have her picture taken with it.

These graves were so beautifully sculpted and decorated. It is just like Paris to have a cemetery that is so beautiful the things in there should be in a museum or look like they came from the Louvre.

I love the stain glass inside the back wall of the tomb on the left. There were many that had it.

Dr. Who fans will appreciate this. I thought this statue kind of looked like a weeping angel. I kept my eyes on it the whole time so we were a okay.

Such beautiful doors. It is like the angels are welcoming you to the next step beyond the veil.

I hope that most of you have read the Madeline series as a child. We are big fans. We were reading one (I think it was Madeline to the rescue) and Miss Clavel and the twelve little girls in two straight lines were going around Paris and there is a picture of them at Pere Lachiase! I snapped a photo of it so I could show Cosette one day that we have been where Madeline has been. 

That is one outing documented. We have plenty more to come. Paris you never disappoint.