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June 8, 2021 at 4pm

Père Lachaise Cemetery’s Victor Noir regularly receives posthumous hand jobs from the average public but the exquisite Dita VonTeese is not average and when it comes to sexy…she’s in a class by herself. A shame her smoldering grind didn’t take place in 1869! Victor Noir was only 21 when he died back in 1870. He was a hard-working political reporter who got caught in the wrong place at the......

May 25, 2021 at 6pm

Most certainly! Confused? Well, first let me explain my declaration that Isadora Duncan manipulated time in the realm of quantum physics. Our human experience is a series of interactions between our minds and our environment. When someone is a visionary to the extent that Isadora was, they are able to liberate themselves from what is currently happening (the environment) and they create a new rea......

May 18, 2021 at 5pm

“Two young women at college with their male play-thing! FILTH! What is the world coming to in 2021 if books like these can be published?” She’d never heard of Colette apparently. I was in the library standing near a woman who was freaking out about her daughter’s choice of reading material. The appalled mother was trying to adhere to the ‘whisper policy’ so her voice came out as a......

April 28, 2021 at 6pm

AH GERTIE, I NEVER KNEW YE! She loved new artistic expression and created a whole new way of writing. For a brief time in my twenties, I swirled around an intellectual crowd of writers, professors and bon vivants. That must be where I heard her name. So when I happened upon the final resting place of Gertrude Stein on the Avenue Circulaire in Père Lachaise Cemetery, I stopped and scratched my hea......

April 9, 2021 at 3am

Pere Lachaise is THE place to spend the afterlife with everyone dying to be interred with the likes of Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde. But that wasn't always the case. Historically the city of Paris had a tradition of burying loved-ones near homes, in overcrowded church yards and in the case of a criminal or plague victim…in mass unmarked graves. In the effort of hygienic breakthrough......

August 13, 2020 at 6pm

Not only are the lanes of Père Lachaise Cemetery one of the most beautiful walks in Paris but visiting these five graves will take you to the final resting places of the world’s most incredible people. #4 Edith Piaf Hers was the voice of a nation embodied in a tiny woman. Edith Piaf’s recordings are still treasured over 50 years after her death, and they are unlike any style......

July 15, 2020 at 6pm

Not only are the lanes of Père Lachaise Cemetery one of the most beautiful walks in Paris but visiting these five graves will take you to the final resting places of the world’s most incredible people. #5 Héloïse and Abelard The original Romeo and Juliet, the story of forbidden love between a teacher and his student is so tragic that it has stirred hearts since the early 11......