When he died in 1932, Lee Duncan took Rin Tin Tin's body back to France, where he had him buried in a Paris cemetery, the country of his birth.

So is Beckett, who wrote many of his best-known plays in French and is buried beside his French wife, Suzanne, in a Paris cemetery, now to be remembered as an Irishman?

Andrew Miller's Pure, revolving around the exhumation of rotting corpses from a Paris cemetery in the 18th century, sparkled in comparison.

A photographer in black and white, Frank Gimpaya focuses on 19th-century funerary sculpture in a Paris cemetery.

Then followed "Permanent Parisians," a guide to Paris cemeteries by Judi Culbertson and Tom Randall, and a book on the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch.

And invariably it was in the vicinity of a Paris cemetery.

In the second novella, "Three Pigs in Five Days," a woman and her lover, who produce a travel newsletter, visit a string of Paris cemeteries and prisons.

On 24 September 2001, 118 years after his death in France, an urn containing soil from the collective grave where Norwid had been buried, from the Paris cemetery of Montmorency, was enshrined in the "Crypts of the Bards" at Wawel Cathedral.

However, the rules to be buried in a Paris cemetery are rather strict: people may be buried in one of these cemeteries if they die in the French capital city or if they lived there.

The Jackal is buried in an unmarked grave in a Paris cemetery, officially recorded as "an unknown foreign tourist, killed in a car accident."