Cemetery Week

Well, this was cemetery week, beginning with our visit to the US war cemetery in Suresnes, continuing with our tour of the St Denis Basilica which has the resting places of the French kings, including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette (first pix) and ending today with the Cemetere Monparnasse.  For you movie and military history buffs, Major Alfred Dreyfus of "I Accuse!" Fame (the wonderful Mel Ferrer movie about the Dreyfus Affair in which the heroic Jewish Major Dreyfus suffered on Devil's Island after conviction of espionage on faked evidence in anti-Semitic turn of the century France) is buried there in a very simple family grave along with the actress Jean Seberg.  But the best monument is the famous tomb of the Charles Pigeon family - see pix below.