Steaming coffee in hand, I’m admiring Le Radeau de la Méduse – the Raft of the Medusa – on a crisp morning in Paris. But I’m not at the Louvre, or any of the (many) galleries and museums. Instead, I’m standing by the grave of Théodore Géricault.
His famous oil painting has been sculpted in bronze to one side of his gravestone at the most-visited cemetery in the world: Père Lachaise. Here, spread across this 110-acre city of immortals, Gericault joins Edith Piaf, Jim Morrison, Amedeo Modigliani and Oscar Wilde amongst an estimated one million others.
