A Place Where Everything Bleeds Turquoise

During my last few weeks in Paris I was partly occupied from working in Rachel Perlmeter's new film, but on the whole, I found myself with lots of spare time.  I decided to stroll around Cimetière Père Lachaise, without any touristy map, and see what graves I might run into.

The majority of the graves look like elevators, leading down to Hades.  Some of them even have stairs leading down into the earth...frightening.

Various busts and jesuses seemed to be bleeding.

 

Here is a Dumas grave.  This is my french family name, though of course there are many many Dumas families.  I did run into a couple of famous graves - le peintre Gericault and the showgirl Colette. 

 

In conclusion - while this cimetière is quite beautiful, I beg of you, whoever finds themselves in charge, please do not let me spend eternity in an elevator.