Flickering Lamps
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past…
Category: Paris
Winged skulls and hot air balloons: the grave of Étienne-Gaspard Robert, pioneer of phantasmagoria
Not too far from where musician Jim Morrison is buried in Paris’ Père Lachaise cemetery stands an imposing monument that often gets overlooked by those set on finding Morrison’s memorial. It stands much taller than the graves around it, and on each corner winged skulls…
Exploring the world’s first (and most famous) garden cemetery: Père Lachaise
This week Flickering Lamps is taking a break from the hidden, not so well known sites that often grace this site to explore probably the most famous cemetery in the world: Paris’ Père Lachaise. Opened as the world’s first garden cemetery in 1804, Père Lachaise (or to…
Cimetière de Montmartre: an abandoned quarry transformed into a stunning necropolis
Cimetière de Montmartre, in Paris’ 18th arrondissement, did not have the most glamorous or auspicious of beginnings. It was originally a gypsum quarry, situated outside of the city walls, and after the quarry was abandoned, a section of it was used as a mass…
