Cimetière de Passy

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Image:Passy.JPG The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing in Passy, in the 16ème arrondissement of Paris.

In the early 19th century, on the orders of the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, all the cemeteries in Paris were replaced by several large new ones outside the precincts of the capital. The Cimetière de Montmartre was built in the north, the Cimetière Père Lachaise in the east, and the Cimetière du Montparnasse in the south. The Cimetière de Passy, however, was built in the heart of the city.

Opened in 1820 in the expensive residential and commercial districts of the Right Bank near the Champs-Élysées, by 1874 the small Passy Cemetery had become the aristocratic necropolis of Paris. It is the only cemetery in Paris to have a heated waiting-room.

The retaining wall of the cemetery is adorned with a bas relief commemorating the soldiers who fell in the Great War. Sheltered by a bower of chestnut trees, this beautiful cemetery sits in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Image:ManetPassy.jpg

Among its more famous residents are:

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See also

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