Jean-Louis André Théodore Géricault 26 September 1791 – 26 January 1824 Géricault was an influential artist who was one of the pioneers of the Romantic movement and is considered the first major painter of French Romanticism. Romanticism is a vast artistic movement that touched every corner of art and design throughout the early 1800s and […]
Laure de Girardin de Montgérald, the Comtesse de la Touche Widow of General Arthur Dillon 1700s – early 1800s Élisabeth Françoise “Fanny” Dillon, their daughter and wife of General Henri Gatien Bertrand (a close ally of Napoleon) 1780s – 1800s Going to be honest, I took these pictures for the cat, but she is sitting […]
July 22, 1804, Paris, France — December 26, 1893, Houilles Schœlcher was the the son of a porcelain manufacturer (Marc Schœlcher, also listed on this headstone) whose political and social awakening took place while on a trip for the family business which took him throughout North America. It was on this trip that he first […]
22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007 I visited Père Lachaise in March of 2008 which was just a few months after M. Marceau had passed away. His headstone was not yet ready, but his grave was covered in flowers and other mementos left by mourners. (In regards to the note in the photo with […]
1 March 1810 – 17 October 1849 My favorite headstone in Pere Lachaise is Chopin’s. I was there while someone was working on touching up the details on the memorial, painting the engraved words so they would be sharp and readable (you can see both the worker and the work they had completed so far […]
Paul Moreau-Vauthier 26 November 1871 – 2 February 1936 Paul Moreau-Vauthier was a French sculptor who first came to prominence in 1900 when he designed the statue, La Parisienne, that crowned The Porte Monumental de Paris (the main entrance) for the Paris Exposition. Though he was 45 at the time, he fought in World War […]