Père Lachaise cemetery
Grave of Amedeo Modigliani and his fiancée Jeanne Hébuterne
Modigliani died at 35 of tubercular meningitis. His fiancée, twenty-one-year-old Hébuterne was eight months pregnant with their second child.
The day after his death, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest beside Modigliani. A single tombstone honors them both. His epitaph reads: "Struck down by death at the moment of glory". Hers reads: "Devoted companion to the extreme sacrifice".
Père Lachaise cemetery
Grave of Amedeo Modigliani and his fiancée Jeanne Hébuterne
Modigliani died at 35 of tubercular meningitis. His fiancée, twenty-one-year-old Hébuterne was eight months pregnant with their second child.
The day after his death, she threw herself out of a fifth-floor window, killing herself and her unborn child. Modigliani was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hébuterne was buried at the Cimetière de Bagneux near Paris, and it was not until 1930 that her embittered family allowed her body to be moved to rest beside Modigliani. A single tombstone honors them both. His epitaph reads: "Struck down by death at the moment of glory". Hers reads: "Devoted companion to the extreme sacrifice".