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Fancy having your final resting place next to the stars? Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among ...
There are also 10 plots in Montparnasse cemetery, home to writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Susan Sontag, as well as 10 more in Montmartre cemetery, where painter Edgar Degas, author ...
Parisians can win burial spots in the world-famous cemeteries of Père-Lachaise, Montparnasse and Montmartre as part of a monument restoration scheme.
The grave of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the rock group "The Doors," at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in 1971. Photo: JOE MARQUETTE / AP It is one of the world’s most exclusive addresses - even in death ...
Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among some of history's most famous artists, including the Doors' Jim Morrison, author Oscar Wilde and legendary French singer Edith Piaf.
When Oscar Wilde was jailed for "gross indecency," a charge historically used to criminalize gay sex, his library card was revoked. 130 years later, the British Library has re-issued it. Sponsor ...
The British Library symbolically reissued the reading pass of controversial playwright Oscar Wilde, over a hundred years after it was cancelled due to his imprisonment. The reading pass was presented ...