Cemetery of Père-Lachaise

Père François de La Chaise (1624 - 1709) was the confessor of Louis XIV, and lived in the Jesuit house rebuilt in 1682 on the site of the chapel. The property, situated on the side of a hill from which the king, during the Fronde, watched skirmishing between the Condé and Turenne, was bought by the city in 1804 and laid out by Brongniart, and later extended.
The first interments were those of La Fontaine and Molière, whose remains were transferred here in 1804. The monument to the tragic lovers Abélard and Héloïse was moved here in 1817, its canopy composed of fragments of the abbey of Nogent- sur- Seine.

In the eastern corner of the cemetery is the Mur des Fédérés, against which 147 Communards were shot at dawn on 28 May 1871, after their final resistance among the graves the night before. They were buried where they fell against the wall.

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Contact Information

Cemetery of Père-Lachaise
16, rue du Repos
75020 Paris

Tel. +33155258210

http://www.paris.org/Expos/PereLachaise