Carvajal, Doreen. "French Artists find a way to take their irreverence to the grave", LexisNexis Academic, section A, (2015), 7.

Dunlop, Dale. "The Montmartre Cemetery", the Maritime Explorer, April, 2015. http://themaritimeexplorer.ca/2015/04/27/self-guided-tour-montmartre-cemetery/

Erkoreka, Anton. "The Spanish influenza pandemic in occidental Europe (1918-1920) and victim age", Influenza and other Respiratory viruses 4(2), (February 2010) 81-89.

Pierre, "Discover the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris", French Moments, May, 2017. https://frenchmoments.eu/montmartre-cemetery/

Waldman, Benjamin. "The Treasures of the Montmartre Cemetery", Untapped Cities, March 2012. https://untappedcities.com/2012/03/06/the-treasures-of-the-montmartre-cemetery/

The Spanish Flu started to take effect during the early 1918 until the end of the 1920. This flu affected everyone in the community no matter the age or the health of the person. For instance, the mortality rate in Paris during the 1918 was 6.08 per 1000. By the 1919, the Spanish Flu would have impacted the population of children by 1.5%. Moreover, in total 74.3% of women died and 25.7% of men died between the ages of 15-24 because of the Spanish Flue.[7] The numbers were so high for women because the men were off fighting a war while the women were in close proximity of each other. The child in our story, despite surviving the war, would have caught the Spanish Flu and died. Thus, she would be buried at the Montmartre Cemetery in the 18th arrondissement. In other words, Montmartre cemetery would be the location of the child's burial after the war and the flu. In the end, the disease of the Spanish flu started to die off over time and had a less lethal strain.

Additionally, Montmartre cemetery is located in one of the poorest sections of Paris which someone from the working class would be located. For instance, Mr. Sinet mentioned the tombs that Père Lachaise holds and states that" Montmartre is not for the aristocrats".[8] So, the child, who is from working class, would have been buried in Montmartre cemetery because of where she was located during the time of her death. Finally, this would bring the whole tour to a close because the Montmartre cemetery is supposed to show that even after the war is done there were still threats inside the city like disease. In addition, the child of a working class family would be most likely the victim of disease because of the poor conditions. This is what many children in Paris after the war had to face and many did not survive the pandemic of the Spanish Flu.

[1] Dale Dunlop. "The Montmartre Cemetery", the Maritime Explorer, April, 2015.

[2] Pierre, "Discover the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris", French Moments, May, 2017.

[3] Benjamin Waldman, "The Treasures of the Montmartre Cemetery", Untapped Cities, March 2012.

[4] Pierre, "Discover the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris", French Moments, May, 2017.

[5] Ibid

[6] Benjamin Waldman, "The Treasures of the Montmartre Cemetery", Untapped Cities, March 2012.

[7] Anton Erkoreka. "The Spanish influenza pandemic in occidental Europe (1918-1920) and victim age", Influenza and other Respiratory viruses 4(2), (February 2010) 81-89.

[8] Doreen Carvajal, "French Artists find a way to take their irreverence to the grave", LexisNexis Academic, section A, (2015), 7.

Our tour shows how the infrastructure that was a part of Parisian working class families' everyday lives (ex. department store, school, grocery store, train station), changed the meaning of what it meant to live in Paris during the First World War. Our fictional child is portrayed to have survived the war itself, just to fall ill from the Spanish flu that spread across Europe and decimated many populations in the spring of 1918. This pandemic was reported to have had a higher death rate than that of the war. Our fictional child would have been buried in the Montmartre Cemetery in Paris, which was a very common burial site for Parisians that had perished due to this influenza pandemic.

By analyzing our tour, we believe that historians and students will be able to gain a perspective about how the onset of the war drastically altered the lives of working class Parisian families, especially children. Places that were often frequented on a daily basis, were transformed due to the war and made and in many cases made the lives of these families even more difficult than they had been before the war. It is important to keep in mind that the return to peaceful times did not directly ensue normality or a return to the previous way of life for many Parisian working class families. In many instances, the war itself and the changes it brought on had very long-term effects for the city of Paris and its inhabitants.