Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
Location, location, location. At least a million deceased Parisians (and Jim Morrison) enjoy hilltop city views, cobbled lanes and cast iron signposts. Like most gentrified neighborhoods, this city of the dead had problems attracting residents due to its undesirable (remote) geography. Paris city officials embarked on a marketing strategy and relocated prominent corpses from other Paris cemeteries, thus enhancing Père-Lachaise’s status. It worked. In no time, this was the place to be buried. Most Popular Graves: Balzac, Chopin, Colette, Delacroix, Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf.
Although the cemetery is, by law, required to accept all faiths, it is named after the Jesuit Father Lachaise, King Louis XIV’s confessor.
http://www.pere-lachaise.com/
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