Mysteries of Père Lachaise Guided tour

Père Lachaise is the capital's oldest cemetery, the most beautiful with its beautiful alleys so dear to the Romantic generation, and the most famous, as it is home to the graves of such illustrious figures as Balzac, Oscar Wilde, Proust, Baron Haussmann, Edith Piaf, the unhappy poet of chimeras: Nerval or the melancholy singer of the Doors: Jim Morrison.

It's also full of unusual tombs, and that's what makes it so charming and mysterious... Which, in other times, exalted Romantics steeped in the Gothic, and with a pronounced taste for the macabre, revolving tables and the supernatural.

On this tour, you'll see the final resting place of Abélard and Héloïse, the ill-fated lovers reunited in eternity thanks to Alexander the Black, a curator at the dawn of the 19th century, and that of Countess Demidoff, the vampire woman with the strange will, that of Robertson, the Grand Master of illusions adorned with skulls and phantasmagorias in the spirit of Time, that of the Count of Lavalette, whose life was full of adventure, that of Alan Kardec the spiritualist, communicating with the spirits of the dead somewhere in the afterlife...