A cemetery set in a vast terrace, housing tombs, mausoleums, crypts and chapels of various styles and periods.
Created in 1820, this cemetery is located on a large terrace overlooking the Place du Trocadéro. Its flowering beds and trees adorn some 2 600 tombs, tombs, crypts and chapels of various styles and periods, many of which are monumental, decorated with bas-relief, statues and marble medallions, bronze, stone, wrought iron… It is home to a number of distinguished guests: artists, great names in finance of politics or industry. Here are Debussy, Fauré, Manet, Giraudoux, Cognacq-Jay, Louis Renault, Marcel Dassault, Georges Mandel, Edgar Faure, Tristan Bernard, Alexandre Millerand, Jean-Louis Barrault, Madeleine Renaud, Fernandel… Among the countless examples of burial art dotting the cemetery, retain this reproduction in white marble of the Piétà that Michel-Ange sculpted for the church Saint-Pierre in Rome, reproducing the tomb of Baron Pierre de Perényi in the 10 th division.
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J'ai vu de beaux et vieux monuments, les tombes de quelques personnages connus. Et apparemment il y en aurait d'autres.
Acceso gratuito.
Comme l'indique le panneau, sa situation a l'ouest, en fait le cimetière de prédilection de la classe bourgeoise, du monde politique, militaire, de la finance ou industrie. On y trouve aussi des personnalités connues du monde artistique.
2 étoiles seulement, car rien n'est indiqué : pas un seul nom de rue ou de division. Et parfois, les sépultures ne correspondent pas au numéro noté.
Quelques sépultures : Marcel Dassault ; Louis-Ernest Barrias ; la princesse d'Iran Leila Pahlavi ; les Cognacq-Jay ; Thierry Roland, Haroun Tazieff, etc.....