Walk With Me To Visit The First "Famous" Graves at at Historic Père Lachaise #shorts

Added: 2026-05-21

[00:00:10]Let's move over here.

[00:00:12]Hey there, I am Scott Stanton, the original Tombstone Tourist. And today I'm with uh travel photographer and artist Maude Crode.

[00:00:19]>> Hello. You've seen some of her work.

[00:00:21]Hello. [laughter] And you can see you can tell which one of us lives in Paris cuz it's not it's [laughter] not my accent.

[00:00:30]And we are at I I I'm going to butcher these names. Whose graves are we at right now? We are at Jean de la Fontaine. He's there. And Molière. Okay.

[00:00:41]And these were two very famous uh critical writers um of the early 1800s and uh Maude would study them in high school, their writings.

[00:00:56]>> and the texts and comedies. Yeah, and it doesn't matter how old they were, it was important to teach each us in high school. Now, what a lot of people don't realize, this is probably not their bones. This is probably not where they're buried cuz they were originally buried in a churchyard but a a government clerk mixed up the bones and the and the addresses and they scooped them up and they put them in a museum and then when they had the museum closed, they said, "Oh, what are we going to do with these?" Well, as a side note, Père Lachaise was a very unpopular um cemetery. It was opened in 1804 and nobody wanted to be buried here. So, they said, "Hey, let's do uh let's get a couple of famous people." Voilà, they became available, they buried them here, and it worked.

[00:01:46]So, when you need when you're running a cemetery and you need people, you get famous people and boom, you're off and running.

[00:01:54]>> maybe they are mixed up bones. We don't know.

[00:01:57]>> [laughter] >> But they are here. Yeah, so let's pretend this is where they're actually buried and that's their real bones cuz they're nice sarcophagus. I'm Scott Eden. I'm with Mo. Tombstone tourist.

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