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    City of Immortals: Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (ORO)

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    This primary-individual account of a mythical necropolis will pleasure Francophiles, vacationers and armchair vacationers, whilst enriching the revel in of taphophiles (cemetery fans) and aficionados of artwork and structure, thriller and romance. Carolyn Campbell’s evocative photographs are complemented by means of the ones of popular panorama photographer Joe Cornish. “Town of Immortals” celebrates the newness and eccentricity of Père-Lachaise Cemetery in the course of the engrossing tale of the historical past of the web site dependent by means of Napoleonic decree at the side of snap shots of the ultimate moments of the cultural icons buried inside its partitions. Along with a number of “conversations” with one of the crucial top-profile citizens, 3 guided excursions are supplied at the side of an illustrated pull-out map that includes the grave web sites of 80-4 architects, artists, writers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers and actors, together with Oscar Wilde, Jim Morrison of the Doorways. Frédéric Chopin, Georges Bizet, Edith Piaf, Maria Callas, Isadora Duncan, Eugène Delacroix, Gertrude Stein, Amedeo Modigliani, Sarah Bernhardt, Simone Signoret, Colette and Marcel Proust.

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