Père Lachaise Cemetery

Paris, Île-de-France

Est. 1804 110 acres 6,500+ memorials
The largest cemetery in Paris and one of the most visited in the world. Home to the graves of Jim Morrison, Oscar Wilde, and Frédéric Chopin.

Memorials

Jacques Augustin Catherine Pajou
1766–1828 (age 62)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Louis-Sébastien Mercier
1740–1814 (age 74)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Louis-Sébastien Mercier was a French dramatist, writer, and social commentator best known for his utopian novel and viv...
Jacques Lauriston
1768–1828 (age 60)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jacques Lauriston (1768-1828) was a French general and diplomat born in Pondicherry who served as a Marshal of France an...
François-André Vincent
1746–1816 (age 70)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Pierre-Édouard Lémontey
1762–1826 (age 64)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Pierre-Édouard Lémontey (1762-1826) was a French writer and historian from Lyon buried at the Grave of Lémontey.
Alexis Thérèse Petit
1791–1820 (age 29)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Alexis Thérèse Petit was a French physicist whose pioneering work in thermodynamics was cut short by his early death.
Marie-Joseph Chénier
1764–1811 (age 47)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Nicolas Isouard
1775–1818 (age 43)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Nicolas Isouard (1775-1818) was a Maltese-French composer known for his operas during the Napoleonic period.
Jean-Augustin Capperonnier
1745–1820 (age 75)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Joseph Dessolles
1767–1828 (age 61)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Joseph Dessolles was a French politician and military figure of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu
1747–1825 (age 78)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Félix-Julien-Jean Bigot de Préameneu (1747-1825) was a French jurist and statesman who helped draft the Napoleonic Cod...
François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage
1749–1821 (age 72)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
François Joseph de Gratet, vicomte Dubouchage was a French nobleman and politician who served as Minister of the Navy u...
Aubin-Louis Millin de Grandmaison
1759–1818 (age 59)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard
1732–1817 (age 85)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Suard was a prominent French writer and critic of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Pierre Antoine Delalande
1787–1823 (age 36)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils
1773–1815 (age 42)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
French engineer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who contributed to industrial and technical development.
Jean Henri Hassenfratz
1755–1827 (age 72)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean Henri Hassenfratz (1755-1827) was a French chemist and mineralogist who contributed to the development of chemical ...
Maurin Didier
1759–1819 (age 60)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Maurin Didier (1759-1819) was a French individual buried at the Grave of Didier.
Jean-Baptiste Chagot
1759–1826 (age 67)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Baptiste Chagot (1759-1826) was a French individual from Paris active during the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
Alexandrine-Hélène Bourguignon
1774–1825 (age 51)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
French woman who lived through the Revolutionary and post-Revolutionary periods.
François-Charles Bourguignon
1763–1816 (age 53)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
François-Charles Bourguignon was a French person who lived during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras.
Sarah Harvey
1815–1815 (age 0)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Sarah Harvey was a woman from Womersley, England, who died in 1815 and was buried in France.
Marguerite-Angélique Hémon
1775–1818 (age 43)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Marguerite-Angélique Hémon (1775-1818) was a French woman who lived during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.
Jean-Marie Parent
1825–1825 (age 0)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Marie Parent (died 1825) was a French figure buried at the Grave of Duchand de Sancey.
Étienne-Théodore Dabo
1788–1821 (age 33)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Louis-François Batailhe de Francès Montval
1735–1827 (age 92)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
French architect whose career spanned the Enlightenment and Revolutionary periods.
Pierre Jacquemart
1739–1804 (age 65)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Pierre Jacquemart (1739-1804) was a French individual who lived during the Revolutionary period.
Nicolas-Henry Cottin
1760–1820 (age 60)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Nicolas-Henry Cottin (1760-1820) was a French banker and husband of the celebrated novelist Sophie Cottin (née Ristaud)...
Louis-André Caillouet
d. 1817
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Louis-André Caillouet was a Parisian who died in 1817.
Charles-Joseph Lemarchand
1759–1826 (age 67)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Charles-Joseph Lemarchand (1759-1826) was a French figure from Dieppe buried at the Grave of Lemarchand.
Jean-Abraham Auvity
1754–1821 (age 67)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Abraham Auvity (1754-1821) was a French individual from Troyes who lived through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic e...
Jeanne-Marie-Ernestine d'Abbadie
1800–1814 (age 14)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jeanne-Marie-Ernestine d'Abbadie (1800-1814) was a French girl from Deux-Sèvres who died at age fourteen.
Augustine-Jeanne-Catherine-Maximilienne Cléry de Bécourt
1766–1821 (age 55)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Augustine-Jeanne-Catherine-Maximilienne Cléry de Bécourt was a French noblewoman who lived from 1766 to 1821 during th...
Nicolas-Antoine Guillard
1760–1820 (age 60)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Nicolas-Antoine Guillard was a French librettist who wrote opera libretti during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Anne-Charlotte-Renée Dhiris
1736–1817 (age 81)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Anne-Charlotte-Renée Dhiris was a French woman of the 18th century, wife of Gabriel-Charles Bidault.
Gabriel-Charles Bidault
1727–1817 (age 90)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Gabriel-Charles Bidault was a French individual of the 18th century, husband of Anne-Charlotte-Renée Dhiris.
Marie Anne de Coislin
1732–1817 (age 85)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Marie Anne de Coislin was an 18th-century French aristocrat who lived from 1732 to 1817, surviving the French Revolution...
Joseph-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont
1747–1826 (age 79)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Joseph-Pierre Henriquel-Dupont (1747-1826) was a French merchant or tradesman from Rouen.
Philippe de Laage de Bellefaye
1764–1824 (age 60)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Philippe de Laage de Bellefaye was a French nobleman who lived during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.
Anne du Ruey
1768–1816 (age 48)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Anne du Ruey was a French noblewoman who lived during the Revolutionary and early Napoleonic eras.
William Lawless
1772–1824 (age 52)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
William Lawless (1772-1824) was an Irish-born French military officer who fled Ireland after the 1798 Rebellion and serv...
François-Michel Vermeil
1730–1810 (age 80)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
François-Michel Vermeil was a French official or professional from Bourges during the 18th century.
François-Alexandre Ragon-Gillet
1765–1814 (age 49)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
François-Alexandre Ragon-Gillet (1765-1814) was a French individual from Villiers-Saint-Benoît who was buried in the G...
Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage
1760–1825 (age 65)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Denis Barbié du Bocage (1760–1825) was a French geographer and scholar.
Stanislas de Boufflers
1738–1815 (age 77)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Stanislas de Boufflers was a French writer, poet, and military officer known for his wit and literary salons in pre-Revo...
Gabriel Thouin
1747–1829 (age 82)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Gabriel Thouin (1747-1829) was a French landscape architect and horticulturist who designed gardens and wrote influentia...
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier
1743–1824 (age 81)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Anicet Charles Gabriel Lemonnier (1743-1824) was a French painter from Rouen buried at the Grave of Lemonnier.
Évariste de Parny
1753–1814 (age 61)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Évariste de Parny (1753–1814) was a French writer and poet.
Jean-Henri Gourgaud
1746–1809 (age 63)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Charles Dupaty
1771–1825 (age 54)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Charles Dupaty (1771–1825) was a French sculptor of the Neoclassical era.