Jim Morrison's grave
The guide doing our tour said she's been doing it for 3 years,
and there is ALWAYS someone at Jim Morrison's grave.
They have put up an iron fence to keep people out,
as many were visiting regularly to do drugs with Jim and to have sex on his grave.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde gets a lot of attention too. They had to enclose his memorial in glass because people kept leaving lipstick prints on the sculpture.
(Apparently the fats in the lipstick cause the limestone to disintegrate. Eww.)
There were testicles on this sculpture.
The guide said they were rubbed so often (for luck), they fell off.
They're now a paperweight in an office for the cemetery.
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This guy below has his tomb ready to go. He isn't even dead yet.
Google "La Memoire Necropolitaine"
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A victim of one of the terrorist attacks, Bernard Verlhac.
He worked for Charlie Hebdo paper as a cartoonist when the cartoon was published about Bin Laden that caused the attack. Not sure if it was his cartoon or not.
Memorials to the Holocaust
The guide said this one about the Jewish children was put up a little too late.
The kids were pulled right out of their schools.
Other examples of elaborate tombs in this cemetery
