Eternal Resting Places: From Paris’ Père Lachaise to Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery

Although Paris is the city of love and romance, it also established the modern tradition of burial in beautifully landscaped surroundings.

This new concept of cemeteries quickly spread to the United States. Join Dr. Seth Gopin as he traces the evolution from mass interment in church graveyards to the new concept of planned urban cemeteries such as Père Lachaise, created in 1804 and Green-Wood Cemetery in 1838.