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Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, [simtjɛʁ dy pɛʁ laʃɛːz], formerly Cimetière de l'Est, lit. ' Cemetery of the East ') is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at 44 hectares or 110 acres. [1] With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world.
Jacob Roblès – Famous grave for the medallion Silence (1842) by Antoine-Augustin Préault; Waldeck Rochet – French politician, and General Secretary of the Communist Party of France 1964-1972; Georges Rodenbach – Belgian poet; Jean Rollin – French director and novelist; Jules Romains – French writer
Viktor Yushchenko at the grave of Symon Petliura Grave of François Pouqueville. Pan Yuliang (1895–1977), Chinese painter; Jean-Claude Pascal (1927–1992), singer and actor; Adolphe Pégoud (1889–1915), aviator; Auguste Perret (1874–1954), architect; Bénédicte Pesle (1927–2018), arts patron; Symon Petliura (1879–1926), Ukrainian leader
Montparnasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is roughly 47 acres and is the second largest cemetery in Paris. [1] The cemetery has over 35,000 graves, and approximately 1,000 people are buried there each year. [2] [3]
4. Oscar Wilde. Paris It took 10 months to build Oscar Wilde's tomb, a sphinx-like sculpture by Jacob Epstein that stands out even in the distinguished setting of the Père Lachaise Cemetery.
The Cemetery of Montmartre (French: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord , it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Montparnasse Cemetery .
Montrouge Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Montrouge) is a cemetery in the south of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, located between the Boulevards of the Marshals and Boulevard Périphérique It was created in 1819 in the commune of Montrouge , but was transferred to the City of Paris in 1925 following a border change.
Celebrities who share a cemetery. Because there is a finite amount of land, and infinite amount of dead people, burial plots in this and many other cemeteries started being sold or flipped like ...