Tag: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

• Objet 51 – Mauthausen Memorial Paris

  The monument is one of more than a dozen memorials erected in the Père Lachaise Cemetery commemorating victims of various Nazi concentration and death camps. The steep-stepped granite tower represents the infamous Stairs of Death at the Mauthausen granite quarry where prisoners were forced to climb carrying granite blocks weighing 25 kilos and more, and…

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  April 12, 2024

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  20th arrondissement, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Père Lachaise Cemetery

• Walk 48 – Les Amandiers

  Barkevouhi Bedrossian (poètess)54 Bd de Belleville, 75020 Paris, France Armenian Barkêve Orfa Bedrossian (1908-1980), was a talented poet and illustrator who was married to the writer Armand J. Bedrossian. Amongst her publications is the beautiful 1964 book Armenouche (Symphonie Poétique), that combines both her literary and pictorial talents, and was published while she lived here.…

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  January 19, 2024

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  20th arrondissement, Barkêve Orfa Bedrossian, Barkevouhi Bedrossian, Catherine Anglade, Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, Janie Cap, Jean Garron, Jo Privat, Lucienne Noblet, Magda Liermann, Marie-Christine Charmolu, Robert Castel