Fans both current and future of rambles in Père Lachaise, Montparnasse, Montmartre, etc. might enjoy the read. We are subscribers but it doesn't appear to be subscription blocked. :O)
New visitors to Père Lachaise might also want to read up on its rumored oldest inhabitants, Héloïse and Abélard, whose journey to entombment in this most famous of the city's burial grounds was long and complicated! Although both met their demise in the mid 12th century, their combined remains were shuffled from place to place until 1817, when they were (allegedly) buried for a final time here. Their romance of forbidden love being well known at the time, Powers That Be figured posthumous proximity to these celebrated bones, as well as those of a few others, would draw business for the then-remote cemetery. Are their Medieval remains really inside their tomb? Who knows but the marketing strategy worked!