|
|
|
La Môme: film trails in Paris |
|
|
|
Back
Discover where the film was shot.
Follow the Paris Film Trails and explore famous or little-known parts of the city that have featured in classic and recent movies. Over 650 film shoots take place in Paris each year, and some 4,000 different outside locations have been used. The Film Trails are pocket guides for lovers of Paris and the cinema.
Report by Mission Cinéma - Mairie de Paris - www.cinema.paris.fr
Film photos: © Bruno Calvo
© 2007 LEGENDE – TF1 INTERNATIONAL – TF1 FILMS PRODUCTION – OKKO Production s.r.o - SONGBIRD Pictures Limited
Setting 5: Père Lachaise Cemetery
On 11 October 1963, Edith Piaf is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery, surrounded by a vast crowd of over 40,000 people.
Setting
The Cimetière de l’Est, commonly known as the Cimetière du Père Lachaise, is the most famous and frequently visited cemetery in Paris. Covering 44 hectares, it contains 70,000 tombs and receives over two million visitors each year. It was designed in 1803 by Alexandre Théodore Brongniart, future architect of the Paris Stock Exchange. He conceived a new type of cemetery, creating a place of contemplation in a
beautifully landscaped park. The perfect harmony between nature and sculpture makes for a remarkable open-air museum of 19th and 20th-century funerary art. Some of the tombs in Père Lachaise have achieved cult status, such of those of Oscar Wilde (89th division), Simone Signoret (44th division), and of course Edith Piaf (97th division).
Click to locate the setting in Paris
Photo Cimetière du Père Lachaise © Pierre Marilly/MAIRIE DE PARIS
|
|
|
|
|
Our institutional
partners
|
|
|
|
Français
Deutsch
Español
