Jacques Sirgent reveals to 20 Minutes TV the hidden symbols of the famous Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Beyond the graves of celebrities such as Édith Piaf, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde Molière and Jim Morrison, many secrets lie in this cemetery of stars. Supernatural events, terrifying anecdotes and unexplained phenomena hold no secrets for France’s only vampirologist.
Former professor specializing in Anglo-Saxon Gothic literature and passionate about macabre history, Jacques Sirgent is the author of around ten works on vampirism. Also the former owner of a supernatural museum dedicated to vampires and monsters of the imagination, he was forced to close its doors due to the health crisis.
Determined to share his knowledge again, this time far from school, he chose a cemetery as a place of teaching during esoteric visits. Jacques Sirgent deciphers and recounts the funereal anecdotes of the place where the dead rest.