DEATHLESS
WRITERS IN THE PERE LACHAISE CEMETERY
Second in
popularity in my series of Writers in Paris Walking Tours, the first being the
ones dominated by Ernest Hemingway and his 1920s “Lost Generation” associates,
is the moody, magnificently verdant Pere Lachaise Cemetery. This walk features the final resting places -- fascinating
all -- of Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, Richard Wright, Marcel Proust, Guillaume
Apollinaire, Balzac, Moliere, Jim Morrison, Colette, the medieval lovers Heloise
and Abelard and others.
Where could
you find such an illustrious bunch of writers as these?
Irresistibly
drawn to this cemetery was explorer extraordinaire
Dale Dunlop (www.themaritimeexplorer.ca),
who had previously written that marvellous piece about my “Lost Generation”
Montparnasse walk (scroll below for that piece), and who now wrote another of
his remarkable text-and-photo spreads entitled “Walking Pere Lachaise with
David Burke.”
Here’s the
link: http://themaritimeexplorer.ca/2015/04/30/walking-pere-lachaise-david-burke/
Check it out.
