Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf, and More in Paris' Père Lachaise Cemetery

Professor Andrew Lear is a world-renowned expert on sexuality in art and the author of the best-known book on sexuality in Greek vase-painting.  He is the founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, the gay history tour company, and Shady Ladies Tours, the woman's history tour company.

Andrew Lear

Learn about the amazing women and LGBTQ+ personalities buried in Paris' coolest cemetery on this fun and informative 75 minute Zoom tour

<p>Père Lachaise is Paris’ great monumental cemetery, with fabulous tombs and many famous “residents” along its charmingly shady, hilly paths (with great views of Paris!).  The famous include Chopin, Bizet, and Jim Morrison—who died in Paris, probably of an overdose—but also many women and LGBTQ people.  Oscar Wilde’s controversial tomb (frequently covered in lipstick kisses) is the most visited in the cemetery, but there is plenty more to see, including the tombs of Proust, Sarah Bernhardt, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, Colette, Maria Callas and Edith Piaf.  In this talk Professor Lear will show you around the cemetery and tell you their stories.  He will also show you some of the other sights of the cemetery:  the tomb of Victor Noir (a 19th century journalist killed in a duel by Napoleon’s nephew, who was portrayed realistically with a death erection—which Parisian women have rubbed shiny while praying to get pregnant), the mysterious joint tomb of two unmarried Napoleonic generals—a couple?—and the monument to 19th century lesbian painter Rosa Bonheur and her 2 life partners!  Come spend an hour with Professor Lear in this charming place, soaking in Paris’ rich and surprising LGBTQ and women&#x27;s history! </p>

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