“What is the size of the grave in which the body of the princess lies? Is it unpleasant smell coming from the corpse?” With this letter to the city of Paris, dated October 18, 1894, the man Norman Ingham intends to know all about a very bad. But what is it about? No wonder the administration has been receiving similar letters for a year. They all mention it a secret job advertisement published in the newspapers.. a whole year in his grave Lachaise’s fatheror his body placed in a coffin of glass! In exchange for this service, the guard receives between one and five million dollaror francs, according to the sources.
Overwhelmed with correspondence between September and December 1893, the curator of Père-Lachaise and the administration had no other choice but to investigate. Conclusion: neither the princess nor her tomb ever existed! All this is just one a jokeprobably organized by a newspaper at the time, a “media secret” that intended to sell paper, as Stéphanie Sauget explains in the glass case of Père Lachaise ( CNRS editions ). The press then under full development and has to find something that will attract readers every day. This urban legend brings together all the ingredients (…)
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