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Description
A small private cemetery
The Picpus Cemetery (Cimetiere de Picpus) was created from land seized during the French Revolution. It is the largest private cemetery in Paris and in 1794, it became the resting place for 1,306 noblemen and commoners who were killed in mass decapitations that took place just a few blocks away.
Today visitors can still see some of the original fence that enclosed the graves of the murdered, but the Picpus Cemetery is also the resting place for one of the true heroes of the American Revolution and the fight for independence, the General Lafayette. Other famous tombs include Lafayette’s wife, Adrienne de LaFayette, The Carmelite nuns, and many others.
The Picpus Cemetery (Cimetiere de Picpus) was created from land seized during the French Revolution. It is the largest private cemetery in Paris and in 1794, it became the resting place for 1,306 noblemen and commoners who were killed in mass decapitations that took place just a few blocks away.
Today visitors can still see some of the original fence that enclosed the graves of the murdered, but the Picpus Cemetery is also the resting place for one of the true heroes of the American Revolution and the fight for independence, the General Lafayette. Other famous tombs include Lafayette’s wife, Adrienne de LaFayette, The Carmelite nuns, and many others.