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The Catacombs of Paris (French: Catacombes de Paris, pronunciation ⓘ) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people. [2] Built to consolidate Paris's ancient stone quarries , they extend south from the Barrière d'Enfer ("Gate of Hell") former city gate; the ossuary was created as part of ...
Count Paris (Italian: il Conte Paride) or County Paris is a fictional character in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. He is a suitor of Juliet . He is handsome, wealthy, and a kinsman to Prince Escalus .
Saint Denis Basilica, Paris – burial site for French Royalty. Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris – where, on 24 May 1430, Joan of Arc [1] was told to recant or face summary execution. Some of those buried here are the painters Suzanne Valadon, Jules Pascin, and tennis star Suzanne Lenglen. Saint Remi Basilica, Reims, Champagne-Ardenne, France
Kiki (1901–1953), singer, actress, painter, "Queen of Montparnasse" (although she was probably buried in Thiais) Adamantios Korais (1748–1833), Greek writer and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek writer and philosopher
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Montparnasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is roughly 47 acres and is the second largest cemetery in Paris. [1] The cemetery has over 35,000 graves, and approximately 1,000 people are buried there each year. [2] [3]
Map of the Père-Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise is still an operating cemetery and accepting new burials. However, the rules to be buried in a Paris cemetery are rather strict: people may be buried in one of these cemeteries if they die in the French capital city or if they lived there.
The names of those buried in the two common pits, 1,306 men and women, are inscribed on the walls of the chapel in the cemetery complex. Of the 1,109 men, there were 108 nobles, 108 churchmen, 136 monastics (gens de robe), 178 military, and 579 commoners; 197 women are buried there, with 51 from the nobility, 23 nuns and 123 commoners. [7]