Karel Appel's grave at Père Lachaise
Karel Appel is buried at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (Père-Lachaise graveyard). Originating from 1804, it is the largest Parisian cemetery within the city walls and one of the most famous ones in the world. Located in the 20th arrondissement, numerous famous people are buried there: Apollinaire, Balzac, Sarah Bernhardt, Caillebotte, Maria Callas, Chopin, Colette, Corot, Daumier, Jacques-Louis David, Delacroix, Max Ernst, Géricault, Ingres, Lyotard, Modigliani, Molière, Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf, Pissarro, Proust, Rossini, Seurat, Gertrud Stein, Oscar Wilde, to name just a few. If you want to find out who else is buried there or the location of any grave, you can find a more extensive list here.
Karel Appel’s grave is located in the center of the cemetery: Division 22 (Section 22), Chemin de la Citerne (you have to go around Section 22). The cemetery has several entrances. We suggest entering through the main entrance, as designed on the map: You arrive either at the subway station Père Lachaise (line 2 or 3, exit in front of the entrance Porte des Amandiers; but it is preferrable to walk down the Boulevard de Ménilmontant until you see the main entrance) or at the bus station Roquette-Père Lachaise, right in front of the main entrance.
Then, please follow the map. The numbers in red 1-10 indicate the locations on the map where the photographs were taken.
1. The subway exit and the street sign of Boulevard de Ménilmontant.
2. The bus stop and the main entrance of the cemetery.
3. The main avenue (Avenue principale) – walk straight ahead.
4. Take a right in front of the Monument aux Morts.
5. Take a right again to get on the Avenue latérale du Sud.
6. Climbing the stairs to the Chapelle.
7. The intersection of the Avenue de la Chapelle and the Avenue de Saint-Morys; follow the latter straight ahead.
8. The first indication of Division 22 (Section 22). But don’t enter here. Keep on going straight ahead following Avenue Saint-Morys.
9. This sign indicates Section 23, and further away even Section 24. Nevertheless, this is the entrance of Chemin de la Citerne, and you have to take it, because Karel Appel’s grave is on the back of Section 22.
10. Here is the first glimpse: The grave is not right on the Chemin de la Citerne, but in the second row.
So you have to walk around it.
