Instead, I’m standing by the grave of Théodore Géricault. His famous oil painting has been sculpted in bronze to one side of his gravestone at the most-visited cemetery in the world: Père Lachaise.

At least 16 headstones were defaced with paint between 1-4 p.m. Thursday at the Bristol Cemetery Land Co. property, according to a Bristol Township police press release and the cemetery’s ...