Elizabeth Broman is a graduate of Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York with a Master's Degree In both Library Science and Art History and is recently retired as a Librarian at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, in New York City. Her MA thesis was "Egyptian Revival Funerary Art in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY". She continues to pursue Egyptian Revival all these years later and has done presentations on pet cemeteries, hair and mourning jewelry.
On the western side of Paris, France, not far from the Eiffel Tower, is Cimetière de Passy, a small cemetery where a simple mausoleum whose doors are topped by an owl sits among its fellow graves in a most unassuming …