Today we visit the final resting place of France's greatest and most well-known torch singer: Edith Piaf. Allegedly born in a gutter in the Belleville section of the city, she rose to epitomize the French female chanteuse crooner. My blogger friend Julie really, really wanted today's offering to be Marie Curie, but I couldn't find that grave. Remember, there are over a million people there. And we were running out of time that day. I did try. Sort of. But I was focused on one grave in particular and I really, really wanted to see it. But didn't get that that one, either. I'll reveal that one on Monday, when I also post a photo of the most visited grave in France.
posted by Gr8fulTed at 6:12 AM
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Thanks for the mention on the blog!! My pics of Murie Curie's grave are all gray and ugly. You would have made them exciting with your techniques.
Here is where she is burried according to the American Institute of Physics
"CURIE WAS BURIED TWICE On July 6, 1934, she was interred in the same cemetery in Sceaux where her in-laws and Pierre lay. Over 60 years later the remains of Pierre and Marie Curie were re-interred in France's national mausoleum, the Panthéon, in Paris. Marie Curie thus became the first woman whose own accomplishments earned her the right to rest for eternity alongside France's most eminent men." The grave site is really odd and down in the crypt with flickering candles and dim lighting. There is a wreath inside her and Pierre's tomb that has to have been there since her reinterment in 1995. Have you been there?
Haven't been there. Guess that's another reason to head back to Paris at some point…*Chuckle*
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