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. Oscar Wilde VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The Irish dramatist,
aesthete and great Practical Information
wit was cast away from 8 Blvd Ménilmontant. Tel 01 55
virtuous Britain to die 25 82 10. Open 8am–5:30pm
of drink and dissipation daily (from 8:30am Sat, 9am
in Paris in 1900. Jacob Sun; mid-Mar–early Nov:
Epstein sculpted the to 6pm). 8 n
monument.
Transport
q Père Lachaise, Alexandre
Dumas. @ 60, 61, 64, 69, 26 to
Pl Gambetta. h Pl Gambetta.

AVE CREFFULHE
. Edith Piaf
AVE CARETTE
Known as “the
little sparrow”
because of her
AVE AGUADO AVE TRANSVERSALE AVE PACTHOD size, Piaf was the
20th century’s
greatest French
her tragic voice,
AVE TRANSVERSALE NO.2 AVE CIRCULAIRE popular singer. In
she sang of the
AVE DES A NGLAIS sorrows and love
woes of the Paris
working class.
AVE TRANSVERSALE NO.1

AVE ST MORYS AVE DES ACACIAS

AVE DE LA CHAPELLE

Victor Noir
The life-size statue of this 19th-century journalist
shot by Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of Napoleon III,
AVE CASIMIR PERIER is said to have fertility powers.
AVE PRINCIPALE AVE LAT SUD The great French tragedienne,
Sarah Bernhardt
who died in 1923 aged 78,
was famous for her portrayal
of Racine heroines.

François Raspail
The tomb of this much- . Jim Morrison
imprisoned partisan of the The death of The Doors’
1830 and 1840 revolutions lead singer in Paris in
is in the form of a prison. 1971 is still a mystery.

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