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A Return to Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Part II

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Père-Lachaise Cemetery has such extraordinary, moving details. Here is a second photo essay dedicated to Paris’ largest cemetery.

If you’d like to see Part I of my Père-Lachaise Cemetery series, see: If Headstones Could Talk: Pondering at Paris’ Père-Lachaise Cemetery.

A decorative green iron sign in Pere Lachaise Cemetery reads: Avenue Principale 1e Division.
A copper statue of a a man standing atop a memorial. The plaque on the base reads: Aux Combattants Russes tombes dans la resistance francaise pour la liberation au cours de la deuxieme guerre mondiale.
A monument dedicated to Garibaldiens de l'Argonne et Volontaires Italiens 1914 1918 in Paris' Pere Lachaise Cemetery.
A grey stone monument with a dark green metal door in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in France. The carved words on the top of it read: "Monument aux soldats belges morts en France."

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Hi! My name is Tricia Mitchell. I delight in telling stories about my slow travels through more than 65 countries. Some of my highlights have included sharing meals with locals in Armenia, Cambodia, and Tunisia; sipping sparkling wine with French cousins in Alsace; milking goats in a sleepy Bulgarian village; and training with a Japanese mine-clearance team in Laos. My husband, Shawn, and I are based in France’s Loire Valley.

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