The Unexpected Blooms and Overgrown Paths: A Visit to Charges Cemetery

Patrick walks into the Charges cemetery, located uphill on Montbernier. In the middle of autumn, on Friday October 27, one of the cellars comes to bloom, anticipating All Saints’ Day. He is not the only one. Around it, numerous arrangements of chrysanthemums or cyclamen have sprouted along the graves. But here, as in the other Berjallian cemeteries, grass has also started to grow in the paths.

This greenery began to impose itself five years ago now, when the City…