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    Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise [simtjɛʁ dy pɛʁ laʃɛːz]; formerly cimetière de l'Est, "East Cemetery") is the largest cemetery...
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    Père Lachaise (French pronunciation: [pɛʁ laʃɛːz]) is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Line 2 and Line 3 on the border of the 11th and 20th arrondissements...
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  • into the Aegean Sea, off the coast of Greece. The empty urn remains in Père Lachaise. Lucienne Calvet, née Calmettes – Heroine of WWII, killed just before...
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    still had artillery at their strongpoints at the Buttes-Chaumont and Père-Lachaise, from which they continued to bombard the regular army forces along...
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    Muslims in the 85th division of the Parisian Cemetery of the East, called Père Lachaise. The enclosure measured about 800 square meters, and in it the Ottomans...
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    William Temple Franklin (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    month before his 1823 death in poverty in Paris. Temple is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery. Hannah died on December 12, 1846, at age 75, and is buried...
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    Victor Noir (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    Noir became a symbol of opposition to the imperial regime. His tomb in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris has become a fertility symbol. He was born Yvan Salmon...
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    Saint-Fargeau, Père-Lachaise and Charonne. In 2019, it had a population of 194,994. The 20th arrondissement is internationally best known for its Père Lachaise Cemetery...
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    crematoria have columbaria. Examples of these are the columbaria in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and Golders Green Crematorium in London. In other...
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    Édith Piaf (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    would think she had died in her hometown. Piaf's body is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, where her grave is among the most visited. Shortly...
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    wall. The Père Lachaise cemetery was established in May 1804 on a land owned by the Jesuits for centuries, and where Père ("Father") Lachaise, confessor...
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    Honoré de Balzac (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    over 50 cups a day) but this has yet to be proved. Balzac is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. At his memorial service, Victor Hugo pronounced "Today...
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    Oscar Wilde (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    outside Paris; in 1909 his remains were disinterred and transferred to Père Lachaise Cemetery, inside the city. His tomb there was designed by Sir Jacob...
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    Pierre Bourdieu (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    Pierre Bourdieu (French: [buʁdjø]; 1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual. Bourdieu's contributions to the sociology...
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    Frédéric Chopin (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    played. The organist was Alfred Lefébure-Wély. The funeral procession to Père Lachaise Cemetery, which included Chopin's sister Ludwika, was led by the aged...
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    Transferred to the Panthéon the same day as Félix Éboué. Transferred from Père Lachaise Cemetery. Victor Schœlcher had wanted to be buried with his father Marc...
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    villa at Passy where she died in 1818, aged 59. She is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. In the 2015 BBC2 television film, The Scandalous...
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    Gertrude Stein (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. She was interred in Paris in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Later Alice B. Toklas was buried alongside her. Famously,...
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    line 2 stations at Ménilmontant, Couronnes, and Père Lachaise, and line 3 stations at Père Lachaise, and Gambetta. The name Ménilmontant is said to derive...
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    Pierre André Latreille (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    a monument to Latreille. This was erected over Latreille's grave at Père Lachaise Cemetery (39th division), and comprised a 9-foot (2.7 m) obelisk with...
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    Paris's 12th-century ecclesiastical centrepiece on the Île de la Cité The Père Lachaise Cemetery - a romantic cemetery. Sainte-Chapelle - a 13th-century Gothic...
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    Edmond James de Rothschild (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    His wife died a year later on 29 December 1935. They were interred in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris until April 1954 when their remains were transported...
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    Jules Michelet (1879; designed with architect Jean-Louis Pascal) is in Père Lachaise Cemetery, and in the same year Mercié produced the statue of Arago with...
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    Marcel Proust (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    of pneumonia and a pulmonary abscess in 1922. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Proust is known to have been homosexual; his sexuality...
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    Mahmoud Hamshari (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    attack. He died in the hospital on 9 January 1973. He was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, which was visited by the PLO leader Yasser Arafat on...
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    Jean Longuet (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    after a car accident in September 1938, aged 61. He was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, in the same grave as his aunt and uncle, Laura and...
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    Cemetery in the north, Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south. Montparnasse as well as Père Lachaise and Montmartre replaced...
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    Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (category Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery)
    on 28 November 1899, at the age of sixty-two, and was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Gabriele D'Annunzio authored an appreciation of the...
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  • writer Jean-Christophe Camus. Camus died in Paris and is buried there in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Champions Juniors (1951) – writer Fugitive in Saigon (1957)...
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    May 1823, while a lodger with the commune's mayor. She was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Elliott, Grace Dalrymple (2011) [1859], During the Reign of...
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