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The cemeteries of Paris III

The cemeteries of Paris III

Les pleureuses

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La Pleureuse: The weeping woman.

A funeral monument featuring a stone or bronze representation of a beautiful woman, often sitting or lying directly atop the tomb, tearfully mourning the passing of the one laid to rest inside.

At some point, the woke revolutionaries will have to come for her too, so unapologetically drenched is she as an archetype in tr…

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