Comments on: Paris Free Walking Tour: The dancers of Cimetiere de Montmartre

By: rhona

rhona — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:13:52 +0000

I was looking forward to taking this tour in April. however the link to the tour is down, and all I can find out is that the tour will not operate from February until ______ and there is no ending time. Does anyone know about this or how to reach Chris? Merci.

By: kallyga

kallyga — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:42:06 +0000

Awesome FREE tour – Chris is no nice and he knows it all. Take his tour and YOU WILL NOT regret it!

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:30:38 +0000

Just completed FABULOUS 2-hour free walking tour of Montmarte Paris with Chris – everyday 11 and 5 Metro Blanche. Works on tips. Well worth it!!!

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:40:32 +0000

I loved the free walking tour, Theodora!–after that I’m ready to “trip the light fantastic” even if it’s in a cemetery. I do have to disagree with your other correspondent, however–the fact is, no one is quite sure where Marie Taglioni’s bones lie. She could be buried in Marseilles, according to many historians. The French, bless their hearts, are rarely content to leave well enough alone once you’re dead. That’s why the Pantheon is full of famous folks who were formerly buried elsewhere, the catacombs are crammed with the exhumed skeletons of yore, and all the churches share bits and pieces of their favorite saints. No one is completely sure that Jim Morrison’s decomposing DNA is in Jim Morrison’s grave, either, for that matter. What you’re left with, then, are the sites that people *venerate* as the places where they can feel most in touch with their ancestors and heros. That’s what’s important. If dancers the world over come to Montmartre instead of Pere Lachaise (or Marseilles, or some catacomb) to honor Taglioni and leave their point shoes there, who cares? I am certain that her spirit, wherever it is, doesn’t mind at all. Better than being forgotten altogether, I’d say (and I’m sure she would, too). And who knows? Next year that same authoritarian dance website may have to print a correction, once someone else proves her bones were actually shipped back to Stockholm or Milano. Soulful ballerinas will still come to Montmartre.

By: diane megargel

diane megargel — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:03:51 +0000

i LOVED IT!1 tHEADORAS WONDERFUL ARTICLE MADE ME WANT TO JUST GO UP AND THEN PAUSE A LITTLEUP THERE! hOW GRAND IS THAT!1 sHE FUELS MY IMAGINATION- THE BEST THING TO REFUEL IN THIS DAY AND AGE. I ALWAYS LEARN FROM HER UNIQUE WRITINGS-LIKE WHO WOULD EVER GUESS GLUTTON INVENTED THE CAN-CAN AND DEGAS PAINTED PETITS RATS??I WANT MORE!!!!

By: Fiona

Fiona — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:44:10 +0000

Taglioni is not at Montmartre– she was buried at Pere Lachaise.
http://www.danceinsider.com/f2009/f0423_1.html