Cimitiere Le Pere Lachaise, Paris, France

is where Jim Morrison, the Doors singer, is buried, but also numerous French statesmen, writers and singers. The Père Lachaise is located in the 20th arrondissement and was the first garden cemetery, as well as the first municipal cemetery in Paris. It is also the site of three World War I memorials—including one that wraps around the exterior wall, that lists names, Vietnam War memorial style, deaths by year, only the list is much longer. Like, 4 times as many French died in yhe Battle of the Somme as US soldiers died in the whole Vietnam War.

The cemetery of Père Lachaise opened in 1804 and takes its name from the confessor to Louis XIV, Père François de la Chaise (1624–1709), who lived in the Jesuit house rebuilt during 1682 on the site of the chapel. The property, situated on the hillside from which the king watched skirmishing between the armies of the Condé and Turenne during the Fronde, was bought by the city in 1804. Established as a cemetery by Napoleon during that year. It is a beautiful spot, but my spouse thinks the famous people should have been buried closer together.