Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

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English: Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) (officially, cimetière de l'Est “eastern cemetery”) is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris at 118 acres (48 ha), though there are larger cemeteries in Paris suburbs.

[edit] Views and some currently unidentified graves

One of the many entrances to the cemetery.	Looking down the hill at tombstones	Avenue Circulaire - One of the beautiful avenues of Père Lachaise	Avenue De La Chapelle
Stairway	Crématorium, architect Jean Camille Formigé	Crematorium of Père Lachaise, architect Jean Camille Formigé	Columbarium, architect Jean Camille Formigé
Columbarium	Chemin Errazu

			Celtic cross
Detail of the Thomas Couture tomb	Avenue in fog

[edit] Memorials

Il monumento centrale/Aux Mortes Monument (1)	Aux Mortes Monument (2), sculptor: Albert Bartholomé	Memorial to the victims of Auschwitz	Memorial to the victims of Bergen-Belsen
Memorial to the victims of the repression against the Commune de Paris	Monument du mur des fédérés	Memorial to the victims of Dachau	Memorial to the fighters of the FP-MOI
Memorial to the fighters of the International Brigades (1), sculpted by Jean Gallo	(2)	Memorial to the victims of Buchenwald	Memorial to the victims of Ravensbruck

[edit] Famous people's graves

List of famous people	Composite image of various aspects of the tomb of Pierre Abélard and Héloïse	(2)	Drawing by Christophe Civeton (1796-1831) (2)
Abélard et Héloïse (3),Sculptor: Alexandre Lenoir	Grave of Edmond About, Sculptor : Gustave Crauk	Jean-Charles Alphand, bust by Jules Coutan	Grave of Guillaume Apollinaire
Miguel Angel Asturias	Grave of Honoré de Balzac, bust by David d'Angers	Grave of Balzac (2)	Grave of Balzac (3)
Grave of Antoine-Louis Barye	Grave of Paul Baudry. Sculptor Paul Dubois (1829-1905)	Jules Auguste Béclard, sculpted by Gustave Crauk	Gilbert Becaud
Georges Bizet	Tombe de Louis Auguste Blanqui, gisant oeuvre d'Aimé-Jules Dalou	Ludwig Börne, bust sculpted by Pierre Jean David	(2)
Pierre Bourdieu	Alfred Boucher "la petite Boucher" sépulture Cimetière du Père Lachaise	Category:Alfred Boucher "l'inspiration" sépulture Burdeau	Grave of Édouard Branly
Grave of Abraham Louis Breguet	Grave of Abraham Louis Breguet	en:Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart	amiral Armand Joseph Bruat, sculpted by Hippolyte Maindron
Symbolic grave of Maria Callas at cemetery Père Lachaise in Paris	Tombeau de famille Cambacérès	Grave of Luigi Cherubini	Euterpe, muse de la Musique par Auguste Clésinger, pour Frédéric Chopin
grave of Chopin (2)	grave of Chopin (3)	grave of Colette	grave of Georges Courteline
grave of Luigi Cherubini	Pierre Dac	grave of Denis Decrès (1)	grave of Denis Decrès (2)
grave of Denis Decrès (3)	grave of Eugène Delacroix	grave of Vivant Denon, sculptor: Pierre Cartellier	grave of Pierre Desproges
grave of Pierre Desproges	en:Cino del Duca	grave of Paul Éluard	Max Ernst
général fr:Émile Eudes	grave of President Félix Faure, sculpted by René de Saint-Marceaux	grave of President Félix Faure	Joseph Fourier
General Maximilien Foy. Architect: Léon Vaudoyer, sculptor David d'Angers	Tomb of Pierre Gareau; François Milhomme: Sorrow, ca 1816	Tombeau de Théodore Géricault réalisé par Antoine Étex	grave of Théodore Gericault (2)
grave of Jacqueline Giraud	grave of fr:Jacqueline Giraud	Jacques Nicolas Gobert general, sculpted by Pierre Jean David (main work!)	Tombe de Claire Goll et Yvan Goll. La plaque est de Marc Chagall
(2)	grave of Zénobe Gramme, sculpted by Mathurin Moreau	grave of Zénobe Gramme	Samuel Hahnemann's gravesite.Bust by David d'Angers
Grave of en:Ticky Holgado	Grave of Ingres	Grave of Allan Kardec	Tomb of Marshal Davout, prince d'Eckmuhl, duc d'Auerstaedt
en:François Christophe Kellermann (1735-1820), maréchal d'Empire, duc de Valmy + en:François Étienne Kellermann (1770-1835), général français, duc de Valmy, fils du précédent	grave of Jean de La Fontaine and Molière	Dominique Larrey	Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance
grave of Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, sculpted by Pierre Jean David d'angers	grave of François Joseph Lefebvre, duc de Dantzig	Maréchal François Joseph Lefebvre	Maréchal Lefebvre
André Masséna, Maréchal d'Empire	grave of Georges Méliès	Georges Méliès	Amadeo Modigliani
grave of Molière	(2) Molière	grave of Gaspard Monge	grave of Gaspard Monge
Jim Morrison's grave (1)	Grave of Jim Morrison (2)	Grave of Jim Morrison (3)	grave of Joachim Murat
grave of Alfred de Musset	Gérard de Nerval	grave of Michel Ney	Tombe de Victor Noir, par Jules Dalou
Max Ophüls	Jean-Baptiste Pezon, animal trainer	grave of Edith Piaf	(2) Edith Piaf
Casimir Perier’s Gravesite	Casimir Perier (2)	grave of Eugène Pottier	Marcel Proust's grave
grave of Marcel Proust (2)	Grave of Czech composer Anton Reicha	Jacob Roblès, Silence by Auguste Préault	Jacob Roblès, Silence by Auguste Préault
Georges Rodenbach, sculpted by Charlotte Besnard	grave of Gioacchino Rossini	général Ruty	grave of Eugène Scribe
Simone Signoret with Yves Montand	Tombeau d'Émile Souvestre (1806-1854), buste par Philippe Grass (1801-1876)	Tombeau d'Émile Souvestre (1806-1854), buste par Philippe Grass (1801-1876)	Elisabeth Alexandrovna Stroganoff-Mausoleum, gestaltet von Quaglia
(2), Stroganoff-Mausoleum	Louis Gabriel Suchet. Bust by David d'Angers	Maréchal Suchet	Statue du Baron Taylor (1789-1879). sculpted by Gabriel-Jules Thomas
Tombeau de Constance de Théis, princesse de Salm-Dyck	grave of Léon Théry	grave of Maurice Thorez	Grave of fr:Daniel Toscan du Plantier
en:Constantin-François Chassebœuf, dit fr:Volney