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🗓️ 2 February 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | So I'm in Paris getting |
0:05.0 | Bessieur, I'll actually |
0:06.0 | of Navigo if you'll play? |
0:08.0 | So I'm in Paris getting tickets for the metro. I'm on my way to visit the grave of my literary idol, Richard Wright. |
0:19.0 | He was born in Mississippi and spent a good amount of time on the East coast of the US, but in 1946 he moved to Paris where he would live until his death. |
0:28.0 | Richard Wright loved this city so much. |
0:31.0 | I didn't know this until I got here, but the cemetery where he's buried is a pretty big deal. It's called Perleches. |
0:40.0 | Apparently, this is the most visited cemetery in the world. All kinds of |
0:47.3 | famous people are buried here. People like Jim Morrison, Frederick Chopin, Oscar |
0:51.9 | Wild, and Edith Piaf. |
0:54.0 | And it's known for some really gorgeous gravestones. |
0:58.0 | I was excited to check it out, and I was traveling with a guest. |
1:02.0 | So pretty lady, can we get your name? My name is Renee. |
1:05.4 | Renee, what's your relation to the producer of this episode? He is my fiance. |
1:11.7 | Mm-mm. He is my fiance. A visit to the graveyard with my fiance. |
1:18.0 | Talk about romantic. |
1:20.0 | My name is Baudelaire and this is Atlas Obscera, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places. |
1:27.0 | Today, I take a walk through Perlachets, visit Richard Wright's grave, but on the way, I stopped to meet a few other writers more after this |
1:38.6 | all right I can stop this for a little bit, save this battery. |
1:43.0 | More after this is really important, |
1:46.0 | because when the ads just come in after you say that, it's like, |
1:50.0 | wait what? |
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