The largest cemetery in the city of Paris - Pere-Lachaise Cemetery extends over 118 acres, and is counted among the most renowned cemeteries worldwide. Considered the world’s most visited cemetery - Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year to the graves of eminent French personalities over the past 200 years. The cemetery is also the site of 3 Great War memorials.
Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is located on Boulevard de Ménilmontant, with the Philippe Auguste Métro station on line 2 lying adjacent to the main entrance. Another station called Pere Lachaise, on lines 2 or 3, lies mere 500 metres away from the cemetery, near a side entrance. Visitors can also enter the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris through the Gambetta station on line 3, which allows entry near Oscar Wilde’s tomb, wherefrom, they can go downhill to visit other parts of the cemetery.
Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris was named after Pere François de la Chaise – confessor to Louis XIV, who resided in the Jesuit house restored in 1682 at the chapel site. In 1804, this hillside property was procured by the city, laid out by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, and afterwards expanded.
It was in 1804 that Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France was established by Napoleon. Ever since 1786, construction of cemeteries was banned inside Paris, after the Cimetiere des Innocents bordering the Les Halles food market had been closed on the grounds that it caused a health hazard. Numerous new cemeteries built outside the precincts of the capital replaced the Parisian ones, and Pere-Lachaise was one of these cemeteries. Today, more than 300,000 bodies lie buried at the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, with many more lying in the columbarium, which contains the remains of those who had requested cremation.
The Communards' Wall within the Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris marks the site where 147 Communards, who were the last defenders of the workers' district Belleville, were shot on Sunday, 28 May 1871. This event triggered a special significance of Pere Lachaise towards the evolution of the political "left" in France.
Several eminent left-wing leaders were buried near the Communards' Wall in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, where a monument also stands in honour of the French Brigadists.
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