In the dilapidated cemeteries of Paris, a grave is only for the rich
Shortage of space in city cemeteries means most Parisians are shipped to suburbs after death
Even the dead, it seems, cannot escape the rocketing property prices of Paris.
A shortage of burial plots means the wealthy are being asked to stump up as much as €15,528 for a place in a city cemetery while the poor are being shipped out to the . Even fame and wealth, however, cannot guarantee a final resting place in one of Paris’s 14 inner-city cemeteries, such as Père Lachaise, where Chopin, Balzac, Oscar Wilde, Edith Piaf and Jim Morrison are
