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79 relations: Abbey, Adolphe Thiers, Albert Bartholomé, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, Allan Kardec, Édith Piaf, Belleville, Paris, Burial, Byzantine Revival architecture, Catacombs of Paris, Catholic Church, Cemetery, Colette, Columbarium, Communards' Wall, Cremation, Crypt, Eugène Delacroix, Faubourg Saint-Antoine, François de la Chaise, François-Vincent Raspail, Frédéric Chopin, Fronde, Gambetta (Paris Métro), Georges Bizet, Georges Méliès, Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi, Gioachino Rossini, Héloïse, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Henri Salvador, Honoré de Balzac, Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Jean de La Fontaine, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jean-Camille Formigé, Jean-François Champollion, Jim Morrison, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Louis XIV of France, Louis, Grand Condé, Luigi Cherubini, Marcel Proust, Maria Callas, Marie Trintignant, Mausoleum, Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex, Michel Petrucciani, Molière, ..., Monowitz concentration camp, Montmartre Cemetery, Montparnasse Cemetery, Napoleon, Neoclassical architecture, Nogent-sur-Seine, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde's tomb, Ossuary, Paris, Paris Commune, Paris Métro, Paris Métro Line 2, Paris Métro Line 3, Passy Cemetery, Père Lachaise (Paris Métro), Peter Abelard, Philippe Auguste (Paris Métro), Pierre Bourdieu, Ravensbrück concentration camp, Rural cemetery, Sadegh Hedayat, Samuel Hahnemann, Society of Jesus, Telephone booth, Tomb, Vivant Denon, World War I, 20th arrondissement of Paris. Expand index (29 more) »
Abbey
An abbey is a complex of buildings used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess.
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Adolphe Thiers
Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers (15 April 17973 September 1877) was a French statesman and historian.
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Albert Bartholomé
Paul-Albert Bartholomé was a French painter and sculptor.
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Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart (15 February 1739 – 6 June 1813) was a prominent French architect.
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Allan Kardec
Allan Kardec is the pen name of the French educator, translator and author Hippolyte Léon Denizard Rivail (3 October 1804 – 31 March 1869).
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Édith Piaf
Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; nee Édith Giovanna Gassion) was a French singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.
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Belleville, Paris
Belleville is a neighbourhood of Paris, France, parts of which lie in four different arrondissements.
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Burial
Burial or interment is the ritual act of placing a dead person or animal, sometimes with objects, into the ground.
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Byzantine Revival architecture
The Byzantine Revival (also referred to as Neo-Byzantine) was an architectural revival movement, most frequently seen in religious, institutional and public buildings.
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Catacombs of Paris
The Catacombs of Paris (French: Catacombes de Paris) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people in a small part of a tunnel network built to consolidate Paris' ancient stone mines.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Cemetery
A cemetery or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
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Colette
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, 28 January 1873 – 3 August 1954) was a French novelist nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
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Columbarium
A columbarium (pl. columbaria) is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns (i.e., urns holding a deceased's cremated remains).
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Communards' Wall
The Communards’ Wall (Mur des Fédérés) at the Père Lachaise cemetery is where, on May 28, 1871, one-hundred and forty-seven fédérés, combatants of the Paris Commune, were shot and thrown in an open trench at the foot of the wall.
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Cremation
Cremation is the combustion, vaporization, and oxidation of cadavers to basic chemical compounds, such as gases, ashes and mineral fragments retaining the appearance of dry bone.
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Crypt
A crypt (from Latin crypta "vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building.
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Eugène Delacroix
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist regarded from the outset of his career as the leader of the French Romantic school.
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Faubourg Saint-Antoine
The Faubourg Saint-Antoine was one of the traditional suburbs of Paris, France.
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François de la Chaise
François de la Chaise (August 25, 1624 – January 20, 1709) was a French Jesuit priest, the father confessor of King Louis XIV of France.
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François-Vincent Raspail
François-Vincent Raspail, L.L.D., M.D. (25 January 1794 – 7 January 1878) was a French chemist, naturalist, physician, physiologist, attorney, and socialist politician.
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Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin (1 March 181017 October 1849) was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for solo piano.
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Fronde
The Fronde was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635.
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Gambetta (Paris Métro)
Gambetta is a station of the Paris Métro.
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Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.
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Georges Méliès
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, known as Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.
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Gholam-Hossein Sa'edi
Gholām-Hossein Sā'edi MD (غلامحسین ساعدی, also transliterated as Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi and Ghulamhusayn Sa'idi; January 4, 1936 in Tabriz – November 23, 1985 in Paris) was a prolific Iranian writer.
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Gioachino Rossini
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who wrote 39 operas as well as some sacred music, songs, chamber music, and piano pieces.
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Héloïse
Héloïse (or;; 1090?/1100–1? – 16 May 1164) was a French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess, best known for her love affair and correspondence with Peter Abélard.
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Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne
Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne, often called simply Turenne (11 September 161127 July 1675) was a French Marshal General and the most illustrious member of the La Tour d'Auvergne family.
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Henri Salvador
Henri Salvador (18 July 1917 – 13 February 2008) was a French Caribbean comedian and singer.
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Honoré de Balzac
Honoré de Balzac (born Honoré Balzac, 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright.
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Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1 April 1755, Belley, Ain – 2 February 1826, Paris) was a French lawyer and politician, and gained fame as an epicure and gastronome: "Grimod and Brillat-Savarin.
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Jean de La Fontaine
Jean de La Fontaine (8 July 162113 April 1695) was a French fabulist and one of the most widely read French poets of the 17th century.
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.
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Jean-Camille Formigé
Jean-Camille Formigé (1845-1926) was a French architect during the French Third Republic.
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Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion (Champollion le jeune; 23 December 17904 March 1832) was a French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology.
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Jim Morrison
James Douglas Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer-songwriter and poet, best remembered as the lead vocalist of the Doors.
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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (also Louis Joseph Gay-Lussac; 6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist.
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List of burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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Louis, Grand Condé
Louis de Bourbon or Louis II, Prince of Condé (8 September 1621 – 11 December 1686) was a French general and the most famous representative of the Condé branch of the House of Bourbon.
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Luigi Cherubini
Luigi Cherubini (8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was a Classical and pre-Romantic composer from Italy who spent most of his working life in France.
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Marcel Proust
Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust (10 July 1871 – 18 November 1922), known as Marcel Proust, was a French novelist, critic, and essayist best known for his monumental novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time; earlier rendered as Remembrance of Things Past), published in seven parts between 1913 and 1927.
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Maria Callas
Maria Callas, Commendatore OMRI (Μαρία Κάλλας; December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was a New York-born Greek soprano, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.
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Marie Trintignant
Marie Trintignant (21 January 1962 – 1 August 2003) was a French actress.
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Mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people.
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Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp complex
The Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camp complex consisted of the Mauthausen concentration camp on a hill above the market town of Mauthausen (roughly east of Linz, Upper Austria) plus a group of nearly 100 further subcamps located throughout Austria and southern Germany.
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Michel Petrucciani
Michel Petrucciani (28 December 1962, Orange, Vaucluse, France – 6 January 1999, New York City, U.S.) was a French jazz pianist.
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Molière
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature.
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Monowitz concentration camp
Monowitz (also called Monowitz-Buna or Auschwitz III) was initially established as a subcamp of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Montmartre Cemetery
Montmartre Cemetery (Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century.
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Montparnasse Cemetery
Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetière du Montparnasse) is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city's 14th arrondissement.
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Napoleon
Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French statesman and military leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century.
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Nogent-sur-Seine
Nogent-sur-Seine is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.
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Oscar Wilde's tomb
The tomb of Oscar Wilde is located in Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, France.
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Ossuary
An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.
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Paris Commune
The Paris Commune (La Commune de Paris) was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871.
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Paris Métro
The Paris Métro, short for Métropolitain (Métro de Paris), is a rapid transit system in the Paris metropolitan area.
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Paris Métro Line 2
Line 2 is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro rapid transit system in Paris, France.
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Paris Métro Line 3
Line 3 is one of the sixteen lines of the Paris Métro rapid transit system in Paris, France.
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Passy Cemetery
Passy Cemetery (Cimetière de Passy) is a cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.
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Père Lachaise (Paris Métro)
Père Lachaise is a station of the Paris Métro, serving line 2 and 3 on the border of the 11th and 20th arrondissements.
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Peter Abelard
Peter Abelard (Petrus Abaelardus or Abailardus; Pierre Abélard,; 1079 – 21 April 1142) was a medieval French scholastic philosopher, theologian, and preeminent logician.
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Philippe Auguste (Paris Métro)
Philippe Auguste is a station on Paris Métro Line 2, on the border of the 11th and 20th arrondissements.
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Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Felix Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist, anthropologist, philosopher, and public intellectual.
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Ravensbrück concentration camp
Ravensbrück was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel).
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Rural cemetery
The rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of burial ground that uses landscaping in a park-like setting.
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Sadegh Hedayat
Sadegh (also spelled as Sadeq) Hedayat (صادق هدایت; February 17, 1903 in Tehran – April 9, 1951 in Paris) was an Iranian writer, translator and intellectual.
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Samuel Hahnemann
Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843) was a German physician, freemason best known for creating the system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.
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Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.
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Telephone booth
A telephone booth, telephone kiosk, telephone call box, telephone box or public call box is a small structure furnished with a payphone and designed for a telephone user's convenience.
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Tomb
A tomb (from τύμβος tumbos) is a repository for the remains of the dead.
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Vivant Denon
Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon (4 January 174727 April 1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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20th arrondissement of Paris
The 20th arrondissement of Paris (XXe arrondissement) is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Père_Lachaise_Cemetery
