Paris Cemeteries, Part 5
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Image 1. Still together
Image 2. The blue dancer in the Montparnasse Cemetery
Image 3. Pierre Rigaud
Image 4. This is one of the larger memorial chapels, furnished as though
Image 5. Raspail monument
Image 6. Victor Noir was a journalist, murdered in 1870 at the age of 20 by Pierre Bonaparte, a hot-headed cousin of Napoleon III. His grave has become an icon of virility, and the object of a minor fertility cult. They also rub his boot.
Image 7. A bust, a cross, and?
Image 8. A young woman Image 9. "For our good friend Ricardo, died too soon, young, loved and handsome..."
Image 10. Journoud Durand bust
Image 11. In the Passy cemetery
Image 12. Former slaves thanking a priest who helped in their liberation
Image 13. Stained glass and cross Image 14. Cierpilisky was a Polish sculptor; this example of his work is in the Passy cemetery. Image 15. This grave in the Montparnasse cemetery has the names of two men and a line from L'Isolement by Lamartine, "Un seul être vous manque, at tout est dépeuplé." ("One person is gone for you, and all becomes empty")
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Image 18. A view of Pére Lachaise cemetery
Image 19. A relief on a tomb
Image 20. Grave of a Kurdish leader |
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