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The Atlas Obscura Podcast

Père Lachaise Cemetery (Classic)

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Producer Baudelaire Ceus searches for the resting place of famed author Richard Wright among the graves of other cultural icons like Gertrude Stein, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, and Sadegh Hedayat. READ MORE IN THE ATLAS: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pere-lachaise-cemetery

Transcript

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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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