I visited the famous cemetery in the 20th arrondissement yesterday but NOT to see the headstone of Jim Morrison.  Instead, I was following up on my recent visit to Mont Valerian, which is a memorial to the Resistance Fighters of WWII.  As I learned during my guided visit that day, thousands of men and women were executed in occupied Paris (and France) and their bodies or ashes were scattered hither and yon.  In the 97th Division of Pere Lachaise, monuments have been erected to remember the fallen who maybe didn’t fight in uniform, but sacrificed nonetheless.  And some just plain old sacrificed.

There are memorials to the victims of Nazi atrocities and to the communists and resistance fighters who were sent to the same concentration camps or killed in the various parks around Paris.  Quite something to see.