The Pere Lachaise cemetery (Part 3)  
Le Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (3)

Guillaume Apollinaire was the founder of surrealism. Click for his biography. Gertrude Stein, an American writer who spent more than half of her life in France, was Ernest Hemingway's mentor. Click for biography of Gertrude Stein. An Encyclopædia Britannica article describes Eugene Delacroix as the most important of the French Romantic painters. Click for biography of Eugene Delacroix. Graham Greene called Marcel Proust the "greatest novelist of the 20th century". Click here for a biography of Marcel Proust. Grave of Modigliani and his lover Jeanne Herbuterne. Click here for a biography of Amedeo Modigliani. Pissarro's tomb is situated in a more leafy part of the cemetery.Click here for a biography of Camille Pissarro. Richard Wright, an American writer who became a French citizen, is best known for his books "Native Son" and "Black Boy". He was cremated at the Pere Lachaise columbarium along with a copy of "Black Boy". Click here for a biography of Richard Wright. There is also a dogs' cemetery near Paris. Read about it here.