In the tranquil Montmartre Cemetery, one grave receives a rather unusual visit every sunny day: a rainbow. The rainbow decorates the very original grave of two well-known personalities, Michel Berger and France Gall, and their daughter Pauline. But how can a rainbow form there? Because it's not a vault like any other, but rather a glass house, that they've chosen as their final resting place.
The world discovered this mausoleum in 2012, on the twentieth anniversary of Michel Berger's death. France Gall, true to her taste for sensitive aesthetics, had a glass structure erected around the plaque, inside which a hanging Japanese cherry tree rises, like a tree of life above the graves.
Poetic and delicate, this installation allows light to seep through the glass plates and set the tomb ablaze with colorful reflections, with iridescent rainbows all over the place, depending on the weather, dancing on the material and on their names, which can be glimpsed as you approach or walk around the mausoleum. In bright sunshine, the entire tomb is transformed into a rainbow!
France Gall joined them in 2018, reuniting the family for a new show every day, a luminous interlude for visitors who come to pay their respects, a nod to the ephemeral beauty of life that these artists so cherished.
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Location
Montmartre Cemetery
20, avenue Rachel
75018 Paris 18
Unusual anecdotes about Parisian tombs and cemeteries
