Marcel Proust
1871–1922
Novelist of "In Search of Lost Time"
Père-Lachaise Cemetery, division 85, Paris
In memory of
Frédéric Chopin
Composer and pianist
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 39 years
- Resting place
- Père-Lachaise Cemetery, division 11, Paris, France
Born near Warsaw, Chopin left Poland at twenty and never returned. Almost everything he wrote was for the piano alone, and much of it — the mazurkas and polonaises above all — kept the music of a country he could not go back to.
He died of a long lung illness at thirty-nine. His body lies at Père-Lachaise under soil brought from Poland; at his own request his heart was taken to Warsaw, where it is sealed in a pillar of the Church of the Holy Cross.
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