Victoire Jacob division 49 (2)

Antoine Gaetan Guernot division 55

Radusic division 54

Delphine Cambaraceres division 48

Henriette Caillaux division 58

Florens division 47

Maudauit division 32

Hubertine Auclert division 49 (1)

Sarah Bernhardt division 44

Baron Isadore Taylor division 55

Ferdinand Barbedienne division 53

Leon Noel division 20

Marie-Genevieve Gamarchon division 2

Georges Rodenbach division 15

Pierre Gareau division 10

Maas division 7

Victimes des révolutions (Mur des Fédérés), again

I first published a few of these images along with their story in May of 2008. I plan to republish them at least once a year. They are powerful, evocative and fragments of not only French history but also remnants of who we are to each other. I put them here since so very few of the more than a million tourists who visit Pere Lachaise very year bother to visit -- or even know about this incredible sculpture.

Anyway, here's the slideshow, followed by all the images as well.

Feel free to right-click or control-click on any of the images below, download them, use them as you will -- please just give me the credit for taking them.