Cimetière du Père-Lachaise
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Maps[edit]
1813 (Brongniart)
Views and some currently unidentified graves[edit]
Crematorium and columbarium[edit]
Crématorium, architect Jean Camille Formigé
Columbarium, architect Jean Camille Formigé
Memorials[edit]
Aux Mortes Monument, sculptor: Albert Bartholomé
Memorial to the fighters of the International Brigades (1), sculpted by Jean Gallo
Famous graves[edit]
Composite image of various aspects of the tomb of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse
Elisabeth Alexandrovna Stroganoff-Mausoleum, gestaltet von Quaglia
Famous people's graves[edit]
Army[edit]
André Masséna, Maréchal d'Empire
amiral Armand Joseph Bruat, sculpted by Hippolyte Maindron
grave of Denis Decrès
Louis Gabriel Suchet. Bust by David d'Angers
General Maximilien Foy. Architect: Léon Vaudoyer, sculptor David d'Angers
Jacques Nicolas Gobert general, sculpted by Pierre Jean David (main work!)
Tomb of Marshal Davout, prince d'Eckmuhl, duc d'Auerstaedt
François Christophe Kellermann (1735-1820), maréchal d'Empire, duc de Valmy + François Étienne Kellermann (1770-1835), général français, duc de Valmy, fils du précédent
grave of Joachim Murat
grave of Michel Ney
Andranik Toros Ozanian, General from Armenia
général Ruty
Politicians[edit]
grave of Maurice Thorez
Casimir Perier’s Gravesite
grave of President Félix Faure, sculpted by René de Saint-Marceaux
Tombeau de famille Cambacérès
grave of Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, sculpted by Pierre Jean David d'angers
Tombe de Louis Auguste Blanqui, gisant oeuvre d'Aimé-Jules Dalou
général Émile Eudes
Tombe de Henri Krasucki
Literature[edit]
Grave of Guillaume Apollinaire
grave of Colette
grave of Molière
Marcel Proust's grave
grave of Alfred de Musset
Grave of Honoré de Balzac, bust by David d'Angers
Grave of Edmond About, Sculptor : Gustave Crauk
grave of Jean de La Fontaine and Molière
Ludwig Börne, bust sculpted by Pierre Jean David
Alfred Boucher "l'inspiration" sépulture Burdeau
Georges Rodenbach, sculpted by Charlotte Besnard
grave of Eugène Scribe
Statue du Baron Taylor (1789-1879). sculpted by Gabriel-Jules Thomas
Tombeau d'Émile Souvestre (1806-1854), buste par Philippe Grass (1801-1876)
grave of Paul Éluard
Grave of Allan Kardec
Journalists[edit]
Tombe de Victor Noir, par Jules Dalou
Sportsmen[edit]
Science[edit]
Engineers[edit]
Jean-Charles Alphand, bust by Jules Coutan
Grave of Édouard Branly
Grave of Abraham Louis Breguet
grave of Zénobe Gramme, sculpted by Mathurin Moreau
Mathematicians[edit]
grave of Gaspard Monge
Medecine[edit]
Jules Auguste Béclard, sculpted by Gustave Crauk
Samuel Hahnemann's gravesite.Bust by David d'Angers
Physicians[edit]
Tombe du phycisien et astronome François Arago
Spiritualist[edit]
Tombe d'Allan_Kardec de son vrai nom Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail,
Art[edit]
Architects[edit]
Engravers[edit]
grave of Vivant Denon, sculptor: Pierre Cartellier
Sculptors[edit]
Grave of Antoine-Louis Barye
Tomb of Pierre Gareau; François Milhomme: Sorrow, ca 1816
Painters[edit]
Grave of Paul Baudry. Sculptor Paul Dubois (1829-1905)
grave of Eugène Delacroix
Tombeau de Théodore Géricault réalisé par Antoine Étex
Grave of Ingres
Grave of Edmond Yon
Music[edit]
Jim Morrison's grave
Anton ReichaCzech composer
Cinema[edit]
Simone Signoret with Yves Montand
Grave of Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Humorists[edit]
grave of Pierre Desproges
Workers and restauration[edit]
Fauna and flora[edit]
Crosses[edit]
Stained glass windows[edit]
In the 1900s[edit]
Abélard et Héloïse's tombstone, by Eugène Atget (1900)
Art[edit]
Paintings[edit]
Chalon, 1822
Courvoisier, 1815
Philippoteaux, 1871
Repin, 1883
Drawings[edit]
Civeton, 1829
Engravings[edit]
Brongniart, 1814
William Miller after William Turner, 1836
Pierre Petiti, 1887