Paris Cemetery Lottery: A Historic Preservation Initiative

Paris officials balance burial space and historic cemetery infrastructure with families.
Fans may get adjacent to celebrity graves (Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, Marcel Marceau, Frédéric Chopin) due to unsold headstones.
Lottery requires buyers to restore historic gravestones.

Urban | Preservation | Cemetery

France

Jim Morrison | Oscar Wilde | Marcel Marceau | Frédéric Chopin

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