Strange landmarks: the sexiest grave in Paris

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In Paris, there is a whole city of the dead, where its own road signs are set on winding paved paths, where the graves look like small Gothic cathedrals and where Jim Morrison, Edith Piaf and Oscar Wilde rest. Welcome to the Père Lachaise cemetery to see the grave that crowds of women yearn for.

In the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise, among the graves of world famous personalities, there is also the grave of a certain Victor Noiret, who died under very unusual circumstances. While working as a journalist in Paris, he became involved in an editorial dispute. His colleague and friend Pascal Grusset was offended in some way by a letter from Prince Bonaparte published by a rival publication. Pascal asked his friend Victor to demand a duel from Bonpart. The details of the incident were lost, but in 1870 it all ended with Noir hitting the prince in the face, in response, he drew his pistol and shot the journalist. It happened literally the day before Noir's wedding.

Nearly 100,000 people attended Victor's funeral, expressing their outrage that Prince Bonaparte, Napoleon III's great-nephew, had been fully acquitted by the court.

Above Victor's grave, sculptor Jules Daloux erected a lifelike life-size bronze monument depicting a murdered journalist at the time of his death - when he fell on his back in the street, dropping his cylinder next to him.

No one knows the true motives of the sculptor, but it is easy to see that the statue of Noir has a very noticeable thickening in the area of the pants fly. A legend is connected with this that when the body of the journalist was brought to the morgue, the victim suddenly developed an erection.

Over the years, Victor's grave in the Père Lachaise cemetery has actually become a symbol of fertility for Parisian women. Urban myths claim that if you put a flower in a cylinder, kiss the statue on the lips and rub the area of the erect genitals, then within a year a child will be born, a husband will appear, or all disorders in the intimate sphere will disappear. As a result, the area around the statue's genitals has now been polished to a shine.

In 2004, a fence was built around the grave to stop the pilgrimage of loving women to the statue, but due to mass protests by the female population of Paris and violent criticism in the press, the fence was demolished.

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