This was brighter and more open than the Montmartre cemetery that we found on our last visit, and we were dressed for cold weather - in the sunshine and climbing the hill, our enthusiasm flagged, so we didn't find the graves of Oscar Wilde or Jean-Paul Sartre. I found Chopin's grave, with the inscription 'Concession in Perpetuite' on the base (I should think so!) and its floral tributes and Polish flags. The grave of concert pianist France Clidat was a bit over the top, whereas that of Delacroix was austere in the extreme. I'd have expected something like the statue in La Place de la Nation, whose top figure resembles the heroine of his Liberty Guiding the People.
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