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

Joseph-Alexandre Bergon
1741–1824 (age 83)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Joseph-Alexandre Bergon was a French lawyer who lived from 1741 to 1824.
Antoine de Charbonnières
1764–1819 (age 55)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Antoine de Charbonnières was a French nobleman or official during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods.
Jean-Baptiste-David Portalis
1750–1822 (age 72)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Baptiste-David Portalis was a notable French figure who lived from 1750 to 1822.
Christophe-Louis Bouglé
1765–1823 (age 58)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Christophe-Louis Bouglé (1765-1823) was a French individual from Tours who was buried in the Grave of Bouglé.
Jean-Baptiste Dumouchel
1748–1820 (age 72)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Baptiste Dumouchel was a politician whose career spanned from 1748 to 1820.
Léonard Bord
1744–1823 (age 79)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Léonard Bord (1744-1823) was a French individual from Vallière who was buried in the Grave of Bord.
Joseph Etienne Blerzy
1735–1821 (age 86)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Joseph Etienne Blerzy was a French artisan or craftsman working in Paris during the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Wilhelmine Louise Koch
1771–1813 (age 42)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Wilhelmine Louise Koch was a woman of the late eighteenth century buried in the distinguished Père Lachaise Cemetery.
François-Xavier Arnoux
1792–1820 (age 28)
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Thomas-Pascal Boulage
1769–1820 (age 51)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Thomas-Pascal Boulage was an early nineteenth-century French lawyer buried in the prestigious Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Jean-François Chagot
1752–1824 (age 72)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Nicolas Bronner
1773–1816 (age 43)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Nicolas Bronner was a resident of Longwy, France, who lived from 1773 to 1816 during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic pe...
Augustin-André Picot
1756–1822 (age 66)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Augustin-André Picot (1756-1822) was a French individual from Abbeville, likely related to the painter François-Édoua...
Léon Leconte
1759–1824 (age 65)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Léon Leconte (1759-1824) was a French individual from Amiens who lived through the Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods...
Louis Etienne d'Orléans, Comte de Saint-Phar
1759–1825 (age 66)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
French nobleman and comte of the House of Orléans during the Revolutionary and Restoration periods.
Jane D'Arcy
1754–1826 (age 72)
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Sir Thomas Hunloke, 5th Baronet
1773–1816 (age 43)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
English baronet and member of the gentry during the Napoleonic era.
Mathurin Glandaz
1754–1827 (age 73)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Mathurin Glandaz (1754-1827) was a French individual from Montoire-sur-le-Loir who lived through the French Revolution a...
Francisco Ballesteros
1771–1832 (age 61)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Carel Hendrik Ver Huell
1764–1845 (age 81)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Carel Hendrik Ver Huell (1764–1845) was a Dutch military officer whose long career spanned the Napoleonic era and beyo...
Armand-Charles Guilleminot
1774–1840 (age 66)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo
1774–1838 (age 64)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo (1774-1838) was a French military engineer from Lunéville who served with distinction du...
Jean-Victor Bertin
1767–1842 (age 75)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy
1766–1847 (age 81)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Emmanuel de Grouchy, Marquis de Grouchy (1766–1847) was a prominent French military commander of the Napoleonic era.
Charles Nodier
1780–1844 (age 64)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Charles Nodier (1780-1844) was a French writer and librarian from Besançon known for his romantic literature and biblio...
Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr
1764–1830 (age 66)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A prominent French military commander during the Napoleonic era.
Jean Charles Athanase Peltier
1785–1845 (age 60)
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Antoine Destutt de Tracy
1754–1836 (age 82)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
French Enlightenment philosopher and economist who developed the ideology of 'Ideology' and served as a senator under Na...
Népomucène Lemercier
1771–1840 (age 69)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Népomucène Lemercier was a French neoclassical poet and dramatist who lived during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic er...
Prosper Marilhat
1811–1847 (age 36)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Prosper Marilhat was a French Orientalist painter from Vertaizon known for his landscapes of Egypt and the Middle East.
Ferdinand Hérold
1791–1833 (age 42)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Ferdinand Hérold (1791-1833) was a French composer known for his operas and ballets during the Romantic period.
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno
1764–1841 (age 77)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A celebrated French military commander who rose to the rank of Duke.
François Étienne de Kellermann
1770–1835 (age 65)
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Samuel Hahnemann
1755–1843 (age 88)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A German physician who founded the homeopathic system of medicine.
Georges Cuvier
1769–1832 (age 63)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Pierre Claude François Daunou
1761–1840 (age 79)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A French politician and scholar who served during the Revolutionary era.
Siméon Denis Poisson
1781–1840 (age 59)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Siméon Denis Poisson (1781-1840) was a French mathematician and physicist from Pithiviers renowned for his work in prob...
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
1772–1844 (age 72)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of unity of compositio...
Dominique-Georges-Frédéric Dufour de Pradt
1759–1837 (age 78)
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Ludwig Börne
1786–1837 (age 51)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A German writer and critic whose works addressed literary and political themes.
Antoine-Jean Gros
1771–1835 (age 64)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835) was a French Neoclassical and Romantic painter known for his historical and battle scenes,...
Marie Anne Lenormand
1772–1843 (age 71)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
A French fortune teller and writer renowned for her tarot readings and mystical influence.
Jean-François Champollion
1790–1832 (age 42)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-François Champollion was a French scholar and philologist from Figeac who famously deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphi...
Sophie Germain
1776–1831 (age 55)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Sophie Germain (1776-1831) was a pioneering French mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory and...
Mary-Anne Paulze Lavoisier
1758–1836 (age 78)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Joseph Fourier
1768–1830 (age 62)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
French mathematician and physicist who discovered the greenhouse effect and is famous for Fourier series and heat transf...
Jean-Baptiste Say
1767–1832 (age 65)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Jean-Baptiste Say (1767-1832) was a French classical liberal political economist from Lyon, best known for Say's Law of ...
Luigi Cherubini
1760–1842 (age 82)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Franz Xaver von Zach
1754–1832 (age 78)
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Frederick Albert Winsor
1763–1830 (age 67)
Père Lachaise Cemetery
Frederick Albert Winsor was a German-born entrepreneur who pioneered gas lighting in England and founded the world's fir...