Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance to be buried in one of the French capital’s most celebrated ...

People are strange when it comes to their obsession with celebrity, but a Paris cemetery is hoping the most dedicated of fans are willing to pay handsomely to be buried near their idols. The Pere ...

Parisians can win burial spots in the world-famous cemeteries of Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre as part of a ...

Many of the bucolic burial ground’s celebrated residents are still, according to local lore, making their presence felt ...

PARIS — A Florida politician's proposal to move the grave of The Doors' lead singer, Jim Morrison, to Florida's Space Coast from the 210-year-old Père Lachaise Cemetery is getting a thumbs down from ...

A cemetery as a tourist attraction? If any city can pull it off, it's Paris. Covering nearly 110 acres of the 20th arrondissement (district), the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is considered one of the most ...

At the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, a surprising array of living animals make their homes among the famous dead.

Steaming coffee in hand, I’m admiring Le Radeau de la Méduse – the Raft of the Medusa – on a crisp morning in Paris. But I’m not at the Louvre, or any of the (many) galleries and museums. Instead, I’m ...

But this claim is flatly rejected by the Association of the Friends of the Paris Commune, a group founded by survivors of the Commune. This is France’s oldest labour movement, whose creators helped ...