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Père Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetière du Père-Lachaise; formerly, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at.^[1]

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Abbey

An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.

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Adolphe Thiers

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian.

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Air France Flight 447

Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France.

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Albert Bartholomé

Paul-Albert Bartholomé was a French painter and sculptor.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas nocat, was a French novelist and playwright.

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Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart

Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (15 February 1739 – 6 June 1813) was a prominent French architect.

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Amélie

Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain) is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

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André Lorulot

André Lorulot (born Georges André Roulot; 23 October 1885 – 11 March 1963) was a French individualist anarchist and freethinker.

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Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf (born Édith Giovanna Gassion; 19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963) was a French singer best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres.

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Étienne-Hippolyte Godde

Étienne-Hippolyte Godde (26 December 1781 – 1869) was a French neoclassic architect.

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Burial

Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects.

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The Catacombs of Paris (Catacombes de Paris) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people. Père Lachaise Cemetery and Catacombs of Paris are cemeteries in Paris.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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CD Projekt

CD Projekt S.A. is a Polish video game developer, publisher and distributor based in Warsaw, founded in May 1994 by Marcin Iwiński and Michał Kiciński.

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Cemetery

A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.

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Cenotaph

A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.

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Charles-Ange Laisant

Charles-Ange Laisant (1 November 1841 – 5 May 1920), French politician and mathematician, was born at Indre, near Nantes on 1 November 1841, and was educated at the École Polytechnique as a military engineer.

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Colette

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954), known mononymously as Colette, was a French author and woman of letters.

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Columbarium

A columbarium (pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead.

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Communards' Wall

The Communards’ Wall (Mur des Fédérés) at the Père Lachaise cemetery is where 147 Commune soldiers along with another 19 officers were executed on May 28, 1871, during the Semaine sanglante, the suppression of the Paris Commune. Père Lachaise Cemetery and Communards' Wall are buildings and structures in the 20th arrondissement of Paris and cemeteries in Paris.

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Cremation

Cremation is a method of final disposition of a dead body through burning.

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Cyclamen

Cyclamen is a genus of 23 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Primulaceae.

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Daryl Dixon

Daryl Dixon is a fictional character from AMC's horror drama series The Walking Dead, and the protagonist of its last three seasons, replacing Rick Grimes.

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David Eustace

David Eustace (born 23 November 1961) is an international artist and director, primarily known for his portrait photography.

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David Yates

David Yates (born 8 October 1963) is an English filmmaker, who has directed feature films, short films, and television productions.

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Dil Bechara

Dil Bechara is a 2020 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age tragedy romance film directed by Mukesh Chhabra in his directorial debut, and produced by Fox Star Studios, with a script written by Shashank Khaitan and Suprotim Sengputa.

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Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist.

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Elle (film)

term2 is a 2016 psychological thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven from a screenplay by David Birke, based on the novel Oh... by Philippe Djian.

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Emily in Paris

Emily in Paris is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Darren Star for Netflix.

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English landscape garden

The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden (Jardin à l'anglaise, Giardino all'inglese, Englischer Landschaftsgarten, Jardim inglês, Jardín inglés), is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Family Guy season 21

The twenty-first season of the American animated television series Family Guy aired on Fox from September 25, 2022, to May 7, 2023.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is a 2018 fantasy film directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling.

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Feral cat

A feral cat or a stray cat is an unowned domestic cat (Felis catus) that lives outdoors and avoids human contact; it does not allow itself to be handled or touched, and usually remains hidden from humans.

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Ferragus: Chief of the Devorants

Ferragus (Full title: Ferragus, chef des Dévorants; English: Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants) is an 1833 novel by French author Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the Scènes de la vie parisienne section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

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François de la Chaise

François de la Chaise (August 25, 1624 – January 20, 1709) was a French Jesuit priest, the father confessor of King Louis XIV of France.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frédéric Chopin

Frédéric François Chopin (born Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin; 1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.

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French Postcards

French Postcards is a 1979 coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama film directed by Willard Huyck, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gloria Katz.

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French Revolution of 1848

The French Revolution of 1848 (Révolution française de 1848), also known as the February Revolution (Révolution de février)or Third French Revolution, was a period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic.

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French Third Republic

The French Third Republic (Troisième République, sometimes written as La IIIe République) was the system of government adopted in France from 4 September 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed during the Franco-Prussian War, until 10 July 1940, after the Fall of France during World War II led to the formation of the Vichy government.

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George Enescu

George Enescu (– 4 May 1955), known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher and is regarded as one of the greatest musicians in Romanian history.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875) was a French composer of the Romantic era.

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Georges Méliès

Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director.

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Grand Mosque of Paris

The Grand Mosque of Paris (Grande Mosquée de Paris), also known as the Great Mosque of Paris or simply the Paris Mosque, is located in the 5th arrondissement and is one of the largest mosques in France.

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Gustave Flaubert

Gustave Flaubert (12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist.

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Héloïse

Héloïse (c. 1100–01? – 16 May 1163–64?), variously Héloïse d'ArgenteuilCharrier, Charlotte.

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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 161127 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne, was a French general and one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France.

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Holy Innocents' Cemetery

The Holy Innocents' Cemetery (French: Cimetière des Saints-Innocents or Cimetière des Innocents) is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century. Père Lachaise Cemetery and Holy Innocents' Cemetery are cemeteries in Paris.

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Holy Motors

Holy Motors is a 2012 surrealist fantasy drama film written and directed by Leos Carax and starring Denis Lavant and Édith Scob.

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Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac (more commonly,; born Honoré Balzac;Jean-Louis Dega, La vie prodigieuse de Bernard-François Balssa, père d'Honoré de Balzac: Aux sources historiques de La Comédie humaine, Rodez, Subervie, 1998, 665 p. 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.

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J. R. D. Tata

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabdoy Tata (29 July 1904 – 29 November 1993) was an Indian journalist, mathematician, analog and Secretary without Tata Group.

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Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.

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Jean Valjean

Jean Valjean is the protagonist of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel Les Misérables.

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Jean-Camille Formigé

Jean-Camille Formigé (1845-1926) was a French architect during the French Third Republic.

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Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe

Count Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe (May 21, 1774 – February 23, 1820) was a French banker and politician.

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet

Jean-Pierre Jeunet (born 3 September 1953) is a French filmmaker.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter and poet who was the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the rock band the Doors.

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Joseph David Sinzheim

Joseph David Sinzheim (1745 – November 11, 1812 in Paris) was the chief rabbi of Strasbourg.

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Julie Delpy

Julie Delpy (born 21 December 1969) is a French and American actress, screenwriter and film director.

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Lavatorium

A lavatorium (plural lavatoria), also anglicised as laver and lavatory, was the communal washing area in a monastery, particularly in medieval abbeys and cathedral cloisters.

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Lee Child

James Dover Grant (born 29 October 1954), primarily known by his pen name Lee Child, is a British author who writes thriller novels, and is best known for his Jack Reacher novel series.

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Leos Carax

Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic and writer.

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Les Misérables

Les Misérables is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.

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List of burial places of classical musicians

This list is a collection of the final resting sites of notable composers and musicians in the history of classical music.

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List of tourist attractions in Paris

Paris, the capital of France, has an annual 30 million foreign visitors, and so is one of the most visited cities in the world. Père Lachaise Cemetery and List of tourist attractions in Paris are tourist attractions in Paris.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Louis XIV

LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Louis, Grand Condé

Louis II de Bourbon, Prince of Condé (8 September 1621 – 11 December 1686), known as le Grand Condé, was a French military commander.

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Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau (born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown".

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Marcel Proust

Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922) was a French novelist, literary critic, and essayist who wrote the monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (in French – translated in English as Remembrance of Things Past and more recently as In Search of Lost Time) which was published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927.

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Maria Callas

Maria Callas (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sofia Kalogeropoulos; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

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Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people.

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Max Ophüls

Maximillian Oppenheimer (6 May 1902 – 26 March 1957), known as Max Ophüls or simply Ophuls, was a German-born film director who worked in Germany (1931–1933), France (1933–1940 and 1950–1957), and the United States (1947–1950).

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Michel Ney

Michel Ney, 1st Prince de la Moskowa, 1st Duke of Elchingen (10 January 1769 – 7 December 1815), was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

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Miguel Ángel Asturias

Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales (19 October 1899 – 9 June 1974) was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.

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Montmartre Cemetery

The Cemetery of Montmartre (Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Père Lachaise Cemetery and Montmartre Cemetery are cemeteries in Paris.

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Montparnasse Cemetery

Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. Père Lachaise Cemetery and Montparnasse Cemetery are cemeteries in Paris.

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Monuments aux Morts

Monuments aux Morts are French war memorials established to commemorate the losses of World War I. After the end of the 1914–1918 war there was a frenzy to build memorials to commemorate those who had been killed and it has been calculated that in this period well over 36,000 individual memorials were erected throughout France with the majority of these being built between 1919 and 1926.

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Napoleon

Napoleon Bonaparte (born Napoleone di Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led a series of successful campaigns across Europe during the Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars from 1796 to 1815.

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Necropolis

A necropolis (necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. Père Lachaise Cemetery and necropolis are necropoleis.

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Neo-Byzantine architecture

Neo-Byzantine architecture (also referred to as Byzantine Revival) was a revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings.

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Neoclassical architecture

Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.

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Nogent-sur-Seine

Nogent-sur-Seine is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

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Oliver Stone

William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American filmmaker.

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Olivia de Havilland

Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress.

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Orchid

Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Oscar Wilde (film)

Oscar Wilde is a 1960 biographical film about Oscar Wilde, made by Vantage Films and released by 20th Century Fox.

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Oscar Wilde's tomb

Oscar Wilde's tomb is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France. Père Lachaise Cemetery and Oscar Wilde's tomb are tourist attractions in Paris.

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Ossuary

An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Pandemic Studios

Pandemic Studios, LLC was an American video game developer based in Westwood, Los Angeles.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Paris Commune

The Paris Commune was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871.

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Paris Métro

The Paris Métro (Métro de Paris; short for Métropolitain), operated by the Régie autonome des transports parisiens (RATP), is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area, France.

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Paris Métro Line 2

Paris Métro Line 2 (French: Ligne 2 du métro de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro.

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Paris Métro Line 3

Paris Métro Line 3 (French: Ligne 3 du métro de Paris) is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro.

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Paris, je t'aime

Paris, je t'aime is a 2006 anthology film starring an ensemble cast of actors of various nationalities.

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Passy Cemetery

Passy Cemetery (Cimetière de Passy) is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. Père Lachaise Cemetery and Passy Cemetery are cemeteries in Paris.

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Paul Verhoeven

Paul Verhoeven (born 18 July 1938) is a Dutch film director.

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Père Goriot

Le Père Goriot ("Old Goriot" or "Father Goriot") is an 1835 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Scènes de la vie privée section of his novel sequence La Comédie humaine.

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Père Lachaise station

Père Lachaise is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Line 2 and Line 3 on the border of the 11th and 20th arrondissements.

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Pesticide

Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.

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Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard (Pierre Abélard; Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, leading logician, theologian, poet, composer and musician.

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Philippe Auguste station

Philippe Auguste is a station on Line 2 of the Paris Métro, on the border of the 11th and 20th arrondissements.

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Pierre Dac

André Isaac (15 August 1893 Châlons-sur-Marne, France – 9 February 1975 Paris, France), better known as Pierre Dac, was a French humorist.

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Rachel Félix

Elisabeth Félix (21 February 1821 – 3 January 1858), better known only as Mademoiselle or Madame Rachel or simply Rachel, was a French actress.

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Relic Hunter

Relic Hunter is a Canadian television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt.

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Rothschild family

The Rothschild family is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt that rose to prominence with Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812), a court factor to the German Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel in the Free City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, who established his banking business in the 1760s.

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Rural cemetery

A rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of cemetery that became popular in the United States and Europe in the mid-19th century due to the overcrowding and health concerns of urban cemeteries, which tended to be churchyards. Père Lachaise Cemetery and rural cemetery are rural cemeteries.

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Samuel Barber

Samuel Osmond Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer, pianist, conductor, baritone, and music educator, and one of the most celebrated composers of the mid-20th century.

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Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'', Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.

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Semaine sanglante

The semaine sanglante ("Bloody Week") was a weeklong battle in Paris from 21 to 28 May 1871, during which the French Army recaptured the city from the Paris Commune.

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Sentimental Education

Sentimental Education (French: L'éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert.

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Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet

Sir Richard Wallace, 1st Baronet (21 June 1818 – 20 July 1890), of Sudbourne Hall in Suffolk, Hertford House in London, of Antrim Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, of 2 Rue Laffitte, Paris, and of the Château de Bagatelle in Paris, was a British art collector and Francophile.

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Stewie Griffin

Stewart Gilligan "Stewie" Griffin is a fictional character from the animated television series Family Guy.

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Tawny owl

The tawny owl (Strix aluco), also called the brown owl, is commonly found in woodlands across Europe to western Siberia, and has seven recognized subspecies.

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Telephone booth

A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a tiny structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience; usually the user steps into the booth and closes the booth door while using the payphone inside.

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The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (père) completed in 1844.

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The Doors (film)

The Doors is a 1991 American biographical film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Randall Jahnson.

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The Enemy (Child novel)

The Enemy (published in 2004) is the eighth book in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Child.

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The Fronde

The Fronde were a series of civil wars in the Kingdom of France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635.

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The Saboteur

The Saboteur is an action-adventure video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by Electronic Arts.

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The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, or simply Daryl Dixon, is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series created by David Zabel for AMC, based on The Walking Dead character of the same name.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing game developed and published by CD Projekt.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine (Wiedźmin 3: Dziki Gon – Krew i wino) is the second and final expansion pack for the 2015 video game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

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Tomb

A tomb (τύμβος tumbos) or sepulcher (sepulcrum.) is a repository for the remains of the dead.

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Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.

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Wes Craven

Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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2 Days in Paris

2 Days in Paris is a 2007 romantic comedy-drama film written, co-produced, edited, composed, and directed by Julie Delpy, and stars Delpy, Adam Goldberg and Daniel Brühl.

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20th arrondissement of Paris

The 20th arrondissement of Paris (known in French as the XXe arrondissement de Paris or simply as "le vingtième") is the last of the consecutively numbered arrondissements of the capital city of France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Père_Lachaise_Cemetery

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1804 establishments in France

Buildings and structures completed in 1804

Buildings and structures in the 20th arrondissement of Paris

Cemeteries established in the 1800s

Cemeteries in Paris

Jewish cemeteries in France

References