Paris Letter: Pere Lachaise Tombs Among Illustrious Dead
Our Paris letter from July 28, 1878, recounts a visit to Pere Lachaise Cemetery. The writer visits Abelard and Heloise, Lauriston, and Raspail among others, notes the grand monuments, and reflects on how the rehabilitated Republic shapes commemorations. The piece mentions prices for plots and payment methods, and describes crowds and souvenirs from the graves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Paterday
Qiaitet
Bastile
Se Lachaise
Pere Lachaise
Laplace
Balzac
Maliacre
Racine
Ney
Assena
Grouchy
Abelard
Heloise
Masse Des Petits Augustins
Lauriston
France
Marie Louise
Josephine
Father Perier
Louis Phillippe
Raspail
Bourges
National Assembly
Pere Lachase
M. Theirs
Rasfail
Iind
M. David
Hee
Louis
Rachel
Massina
Napoleon
Munon
Monuments in Westminster Abbey Scene of Life and Death
A detailed tour of Westminster Abbey monuments shows Sir Francis Vere and many famed figures posed in dramatic life like tableaux. The piece notes the play of light at night and the funerary processions once held near midnight. It also mentions living coral newly dredged off Martha’s Vineyard in thirty fathoms of water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westminster
Abby
Francis Vere
Roubiliac
Shakespeare
Handel
Addison
Garrick
Lady Walpole
Henry VII
Duchess of Somerset
Baron of
Kinsale
Cloudesley Shovel
Admiral Tyrrell
General Hargrave
Sheffield
Norris
G. J. Staunton
R. Pecksall
Lord Russell
Lord Burleigh
Dr. South
Dr. Busby
Sir George Hollis
Fox
Liberty
Peace
Lord Mansfield
Canning
Earl of Chatham
William Pitt
Wilberforce
Death
Appletons’ Journal
Martha’s Vineyard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pere Lachoise
MHS
T Aplace
Moliacre
Mar Giali
Tolma
Ngier
Uwe Ween
Whitten
America
Burchard & Scott
Jere, Pattison
Pattison
Pattison “Victory
Pattison “Advance
Freeport
Mousekeeper’s Delight
Smith’s
Stephenson Street
Pelton & Pomeroy
Mathushek
Hazelton Bros
Pelton & Pomeroy Organs
State St
Chicago
Ill
Mattings
Brussels
West
Wheeler & Wilson
Stephenson
Jonathan Boyer
New York City
Erie Railway Company
Castle Garden
New York
Europe
Jersey City
Erie Company
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Northwest
Wisconsin
Northern Town
Minnesota
Manitoba and
The
Black Hills
D. 7
Chicago Gedoe
Corner Canal
Madison Streets
Clark Street
Milwaukee
Sparta
la Crosse
Winona
Madison
McGregor
Owatonna
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Mississippi River
Lake Pepin
Iowa
Malip
Chago
Vie C.&n.w.rr
Can.Wie
Vial. C. R
Vial. C. Raden Dubuque
San Odereererebvensterssssen
W.U. RR
W.U. R.R
Monroe
Wis
Cedarville
Orangeville
Oneco
Shuey’s
Buena Vista
Damascus
McConnell's Grove
Smith D. Atkins
LEGAL
Rustee
John Reber
Polly
Recorder of Deeds
Stephenson County
Inols
Meas
Peter Kleckner
Ilinois
John L. Taylor
O. Taylor
Aria
Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh
Harrisburg
Baltimore
Washington
Philadelphia
Boston
New Jersey
Pullman Palace
Janney
Atlantic Express
N. York
P.M
Fort
Chean
Journal Office
the Farmery Co-Operative House
Stephenson and
Adams Streets
Grand DE Tour
Hapgood
Rockford
Speis
J. P. Manny
Prairie City
Boss
J. F. Strunk
Northern Illinois College
Illinois
Griffith School of Reading and
Oratory
Board OF Trustees
ER. R. Allen
Leander Smith
Orrin Cowles
Payson Trask
Ames McCoy
Heecuuys Committee
John Dickson
B Robinson
N. W. Hubbard
D. S. Covert
Chas
Speers
Warner
Pennington
Allen A. Griffith
Enq
Bergman & Dorman
J. I. Case & CO
United
Nars
Eig Igen
Eclipse Thresher
Hiorse Powers
Woodbury
Pitts and
Carey
Climax
Ashland
Hall
Bergman
Dorman
Court House
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