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Created for the tenth anniversary of the Doors frontman's death in 1971, the bust stood on his grave in the famous Père ...
Benoît Gallot in Père-Lachaise Cemetery, which he finds “serene” but not morbid.Credit...Julien Mignot for The New York Times In a new book, Benoît Gallot explains what it takes to run ...
A sculpture of the late American singer and poet Jim Morrison that went missing from his gravesite in Paris almost four ...
Some of that was Morrison’s own myth-making; he long claimed that as a child, he witnessed the aftermath of a car accident ...
A cemetery as a tourist attraction? If any city can pull it off, it's Paris. Covering nearly 110 acres of the 20th arrondissement (district), the Père-Lachaise Cemetery is considered one of the ...
The bust taken in 1988 from Père-Lachaise cemetery was found during an unrelated investigation conducted by a financial anti-corruption unit, Paris police said in an Instagram post Monday.
After his death in 1971 at age 27, the “Light My Fire” singer was buried in Paris’ Père Lachaise Cemetery, which is also home to the graves of icons like Édith Piaf, Marcel Proust, Gertrude Stein and ...
Police have found a bust of Jim Morrison that was stolen nearly four decades ago from the Paris grave that has long been a ...
French police have broken through to the other side of a cold case. Authorities uncovered a statue of Jim Morrison, the late ...
The sculpture, missing since 1988, was found during a search tied to a fraud case led by the Paris public prosecutor's office ...