Père Lachaise Cemetery is the largest cemetery of Paris. It’s regarded ad the the most visited cemetery in the world.
Today, over 300,000 bodies are burried there.
Père François de la Chaise, from whom the cemery takes its name, was confessor (as an Jesuit priest) to Louis XIV (the 14th) . He was born in 1624 and died in 1709.
The land was bought by the city in 1804 in order to create a new cemetery outside of the city in order to protect the population against the heath hazards caused by burias.
At the time, it attracted only a few funerals as it was far away and unknown. So the administrators organised the transfer of the remains of Molière and La Fontaine, both of them were already really famous ad poets.
After that, a lot of people wanted to be burried there.
Several famous people are burried there. As examples we have Jacques-Louis David who is a really famous painter of the 18th century and Guillaume Apollinaire is well known as well. He was a famous poet. Some rock stars were also buried there as Morrisson.
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