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Madeleine Cemetery[1] (in French known as Cimetière de la Madeleine) is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis Cemetery, Picpus Cemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine victims during the French Revolution. The cemetery was named after Mary Magdalene, known in French as Sainte-Madeleine.

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Madeleine cemetery

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Madeleine Cemetery (in French known as Cimetière de la Madeleine) is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the four cemeteries...

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Madeleine

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Look up Madeleine or madeleine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Madeleine or La Madeleine may refer to: Madeleine (given name), also Madeline, a feminine...

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Madame du Barry

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executed by guillotine on 8 December 1793. Her body was buried in the Madeleine cemetery. The fabulous gems which she had smuggled to London were sold at auction...

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Errancis Cemetery

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Cemetery or Cimetière des Errancis is a former cemetery in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and was one of the cemeteries (the others being Madeleine Cemetery...

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Madeleine Astor

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Madeleine Talmage Dick (née Force; previously Astor, later Fiermonte; June 19, 1893 – March 27, 1940) was an American socialite and a survivor of the...

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Execution of Louis XVI

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fourth was on the wagon which was to convey the King's body to the Madeleine Cemetery and which was waiting a few feet from the scaffold. The executioners...

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Louis XVI

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execution, Louis XVI's corpse was transported in a cart to the nearby Madeleine cemetery, located rue d'Anjou, where those guillotined at the Place de la Révolution...

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Catacombs of Paris

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Saint-Étienne-des-Grès[better source needed] (one of the oldest), Madeleine Cemetery, Errancis Cemetery (used for the victims of the French Revolution), and...

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Amiens

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mural extending the imaginary garden of yesteryear. The Madeleine Cemetery (Cimetière de la Madeleine) contains a number of listed monuments including the...

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Marie Antoinette

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an unmarked grave in the Madeleine cemetery, located close by in rue d'Anjou. Because its capacity was exhausted the cemetery was closed the following...

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Charlotte Corday

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drenched by a sudden summer rainfall. Her body was buried in the Madeleine Cemetery.[citation needed] Her skull was said to have been removed from her...

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Madeleine Carroll

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Edith Madeleine Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At...

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History of Paris

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devoted to Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, on the site of the small Madeleine cemetery, where their remains (now in the Basilica of Saint-Denis) were buried...

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Sophie Blanchard

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of a house and she fell to her death. Sophie Blanchard was born Marie Madeleine-Sophie Armant to Protestant parents at Trois-Canons, near La Rochelle...

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Passy Cemetery

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Passy Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Passy) is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The current cemetery replaced the...

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Olympe de Gouges

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Girondin leaders had been guillotined. Her body was disposed of in the Madeleine Cemetery. Olympe's last moments were depicted by an anonymous Parisian who...

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Chapelle royale de Dreux

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(1747-1793), was executed in November 1793, his body was buried in the Madeleine cemetery in Paris. It was never found. Morocco World News (2019-02-03). "Crown...

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Madeleine Smith

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arsenic poisoning. He is buried in the Ramshorn Cemetery on Ingram Street in Glasgow. After his death, Madeleine Smith's numerous letters were found in the...

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Jacques Pierre Brissot

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executed on 31 October 1793 at age 39. His corpse was buried in the Madeleine cemetery or the Chapelle expiatoire alongside his guillotined associates. The...

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Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud

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they were guillotined. Vergniaud was executed last and buried in the Madeleine Cemetery. Doyle, William (1989); The Oxford History of the French Revolution;...

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Chapelle expiatoire

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construction. The chapel was partly constructed on the grounds of the former Madeleine Cemetery, where King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette had been buried after...

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Madeleine Pauliac

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Madeleine Jeanne Marie Pauliac (17 September 1912 – 13 February 1946) was a French medical doctor and a member of the French Resistance. Her experience...

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Madeleine Mouton

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Madeleine Mouton (née Madeleine Maxence Le Veller; April 15, 1910 – April 10, 1948), known as The Berthelot Poisoner (French: L'empoisonneuse de Berthelot)...

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John Jacob Astor VI

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Jacob Astor IV, died in the sinking of the Titanic. His pregnant mother Madeleine Astor survived the sinking. Astor was known for his legal battles with...

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