It is one of the greatest hoaxes of the end of the 19th century and more generally of the attention paid to the dead. Stéphanie Sauget, professor of contemporary history at the University of Tours, author of the book THE Pere Lachaise glass coffin tells how this hoax or…this legend was born.
“The Glass Coffin of Père-Lachaise” by Stéphanie Sauget
