Jacob Eberst

The Montmartre cemetery is quite close. Some time ago I published a photo of the grave of Emile Zola. Here is another one.

Jacob was born in Cologne in 1819, came to Paris in 1833 for music studies... and became the most French of German composers: Jacques Offenbach (http://perso.orange.fr/anao/composit/offenbach.html). Already his dad changed the family name to Offenbach, after the village where he was born.

Jacques, more or less the originator of the modern operetta, died in Paris in 1880, after having composed "Orpheus in the Underworld", "La vie parisienne", "La belle Hèlène", "La Périchole", "The Grand Duchesse of Gerolstein" and a lot more, including his last work, the opera "The Tales of Hoffmann"...

When you refer to Paris life in the 19th century, you automatically assiciate it with Offenbach music.