A time-lapse video captures the beauty and the vastness of Père Lachaise cemetery has become a hit on Vimeo gaining almost 10,000 plays since it was first uploaded in August.

The video shows the hundreds of tombs and statues across the cemetery.

Mathieu Stern, a French photographer and producer told Reuters he created the video to tell the 'story of life and death' through the statutes that are scattered throughout the cemetery.

Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris, one million people are buried there.

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