A bridge named after Jim Morrison in Paris

The American rocker "has made Paris the place of his last inspirations" comments on her social networks Laurence Patrice, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of memory, bearer of this proposal adopted this week by the Paris Council (assembly regulating the affairs of the city by deliberations).

This decision comes in the year of the 60th anniversary of the birth of the Doors, a group led by the "Lizard King", one of his nicknames, singer of the standards "Light my fire", "Riders on the storm" and "Break on through (To the other side)".

Paris is a place of pilgrimage for fans of the artist, who come from all over the world to pay their respects at his tomb in Père-Lachaise, a cemetery in eastern Paris, on July 3 (the date of his death in 1971).

To avoid a repeat of the excesses of 1991, the year of the release of the film dedicated to the Doors by Oliver Stone, the singer's tombstone is surrounded by barriers.

Die-hard fans know the other landmarks of Jim Morrison's Paris, where he lived his last months. Like the quays of the booksellers along the Seine, where he liked to stroll, or his last home during his lifetime, an apartment at 17 rue Beautreillis, in the Marais district.

According to the official version, Jim Morrison died in his bathtub at the age of 27, of cardiac arrest. But in recent years, another tune has been heard: Journalist and writer Sam Bernett claims in his books that the icon overdosed in the toilets of a Parisian nightclub, the "Rock'n'Roll Circus".