Picpus Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Picpus, [pik.pys]) is the largest private cemetery in Paris, France, located in the 12th arrondissement. It was created from land seized from the convent of the Chanoinesses de St-Augustin, during the French Revolution. Just minutes away from where the guillotine was set up, it contains 1,306 victims executed between 14 June and 27 July 1794, during the height and last phase of the Reign of Terror.
Picpus Cemetery is one of only two private cemeteries in Paris. Today, only descendants of the 1,306 victims are eligible to be buried at Picpus Cemetery.
The cemetery is of particular interest to American visitors as it also holds the tomb of the Marquis de Lafayette (1757–1834), over which an American flag always flies.
PicpusCemetery (French: Cimetière de Picpus, [pik.pys]) is the largest private cemetery in Paris, France, located in the 12th arrondissement. It was created...
arrondissement of Paris, France Picpus (Paris Métro), a station on line 6 of the Paris Metro PicpusCemetery, a cemetery in Paris Picpus Fathers, an order of the...
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (/ləˈvwɑːzieɪ/ lə-VWAH-zee-ay; French: [ɑ̃twan lɔʁɑ̃ də lavwazje]; 26 August 1743 – 8 May 1794), also Antoine Lavoisier after...
one of the four cemeteries (the others being Errancis Cemetery, PicpusCemetery and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses of guillotine...
the cemeteries (the others being Madeleine Cemetery, PicpusCemetery, Chapelle expiatoire and the Cemetery of Saint Margaret) used to dispose of the corpses...
Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 25 December 1807), was a French marchioness. She was the daughter of Jean...
Montparnasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is...
overflowing cemeteries. Preparation work began shortly after a 1774 series of basement wall collapses around the Holy Innocents' Cemetery added a sense...
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...
ecclesiastical centrepiece on the Île de la Cité The Père Lachaise Cemetery - a romantic cemetery. Sainte-Chapelle - a 13th-century Gothic palace chapel, also...
Passy Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Passy) is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. The current cemetery replaced the...
built by Ledoux. Those guillotined there were buried in the nearby PicpusCemetery and include: André Chénier, 25 July 1794. Cécile Renault, Henri Admirat...
Paris's growth many of these, particularly the city's largest cemetery, the Holy Innocents' Cemetery, were filled to overflowing. When inner-city burials were...
bodies were then thrown into two mass graves in what is now the nearby PicpusCemetery. After the Revolution, the Faubourg remained a hotbed of revolutionary...
Died 23 July 1794(1794-07-23) (aged 34) Paris, France Resting place PicpusCemetery, Paris Spouse Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie (m. 1779) Children...
Château de la Grange-Bléneau (home and museum) Lafayette Land Grant PicpusCemetery Honors and memorials List of places named for the Marquis de Lafayette...
eternal flame be placed next to her husband's grave at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. The four main sculptural groups on each of the Arc's pillars...
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