I googled Père Lachaise Cemetery because I had the idea of quoting it in a
poem, see here for God's sake who is in there besides the ones that Mark
mentioned: Doré, the same Abelard, Balzac, Isadora Duncan, Max Ernst, Gérard
de Nerval, and I haven't scrolled down the page, yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Burials_at_P%C3%A8re_Lachaise_Cemetery
On 3/30/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> You pass Chopin, Berlioz, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret on the way
> from the one to the other. Pretty neat, tho it definitely could use a
> cafe. Every decent cemetery should have a cafe.
>
> Don't tell Starbucks.
>
> The tombs of the Rothchilds are in the Montparnasse cemetery, near
> where I used to live. Their very plain crypts are marked with a larfe
> R, reminiscent of the double R of Rolls Royce.
>
> Check outthis funereal news in the New York Times:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/us/30ashes.html
>
> Mark
>
> At 04:34 PM 3/30/2007, you wrote:
> >I guess I would just split myself and gather around both. Never been
> there
> >even if I was twice in Paris but just for a short stay.
> >
> >On 3/30/07, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>Which in French means "don't gambl;e with tough guys." Always good
> advice.
> >>
> >>Last time I was in Pere Lachaise more folks were gathered arounf
> >>Apollinaire than Morrison. Something to cheer about.
> >>
> >>Mark
> >>
> >>At 03:33 PM 3/30/2007, you wrote:
> >> >Sorry, I meant to add that in Paris, where Jim
> >> >Morrison is buried, they have a French saying that
> >> >translates roughly as "don't put the cart before The
> >> >Doors."
> >> >
> >> >Candice
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
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