During a recent stroll through the Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, I took a photo of this tomb that has what looks like a woman's arms sticking out of the top, with clasped hands.Carved in stone at the end of the tomb is "Famille P. Legay," which implies that this is a family tomb and that there may be more than one person buried underneath it. However, if this is the case, individual names are usually added when they are interred, but no other names were on the tomb.
So, after hours of research, I found out that a French soldier named Pierre-Alexis-Victor Legay D'Arcy is buried there. He was born 3/13/1772 in Cote-d'or, Dijon. I don't know how, where or when he died. But I did find a reference that says he was a French officer of the main staff who appeared in early December in Warsaw in the year 1806 as chief of a squadron of the Warsaw Division of the French Army, during the Greater Poland Uprising.
But who, pray tell, is the woman? And why is she stuck for all eternity, with her arms up in the air? Won't they get a little tired?
Also, don't miss the video I took on the same day, of the skeleton that was talking to me through my camera lens.
