Episode 146 - A Gilded Age Tale: The Owl Mausoleum of James Gordon Bennett Jr

Send us a textOn 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 manner. Yet the story of the man who rests inside this mausoleum is one straight from the Gilded Age and had fate delt him a different hand, his remains may have been laid to rest in America in a very different mausoleum; one that would have gained world-wide fame h...