Today is designated as above ground day with gardens on top of the list. Père Lachise Cemetery is closest and recommended by travellers before us. After some time failling to find anyone on our list we get to Chopin and an enthusiastic expert adopts us and in short succession we are introduced to:

• Vivant Denon, 1747-1825, first Director of the Louvre Museum.
  

  Vivant Denon

• Ken Sasaki, 1943-1991 [no Wikipedia article?] a Japanese pianist who according to our cemetery guide wanted to be buried near Chopin, and whose Australian wife made her mark by including a kangaroo playing the piano on his headstone.
  

  Ken Sasaki’s grave

• Armande Pierre Arman, 1928-2005, French-born American artist.
  

  Armande Pierre Arman’s grave

• Marcel Marceau, 1923-1997, originally Marcel Mangel who was a French Resistance hero before he became so well known for mime.
  

  Grave of Marcel Marceau

• Rossini, 1792-1868 has a most impressive monument
  

  Rossini’s grave

Feeling we have one more garden in us for the day and looking up opinion online to choose between Tuileries and Luxembourg we opt for Palais-Royal. This allows us to walk back through the Louvre and part way through the Tuileries.

Sadly the Jane Rutter Australienne in Paris concert tonight at Saint-Chapelle is too late for those who have to pack and check out by 6am so we opt for the earlier Best of Baroque programme. Much queuing and herding for 45 minutes through security and around buildings and upstairs but the windows are stunning indeed, and we get to hear #2, #6 and #47 from the recent ABC Classic FM 100 Baroque and Before.

On the way back we detour to try for a shiny day (rather than a rainy day) photo of Notre Dame. Time for a last dinner in Paris and we walk the gauntlet of the ‘typical French cuisine’ strip around St Michel and finally chose l’oignon soup and fondue Savoyarde. Who knew that Wikibooks did recipes? Sending best wishes to the School Library Association (SLASA) conference starting today at Adelaide TAFE and remembering arriving from Perth in 2002 and launching into organising the then SASLA conference. Losing track of the state, national conferences and Library Staff days with SLASA since then.