Picpus Cemetery - Famous Tombs

Famous Tombs

• Lafayette
• Antoine Lavoisier who first outlined the principle of Conservation of mass.
• André Chénier, guillotined on 7 Thermidor Year II, in the Picpus pits
• Richard Mique, architect of the Hameau de la reine at the Palace of Versailles, guillotined 8 July 1794
• Aimé Picquet du Boisguy, general Chouan.
• 1,306 victims of the terror between June 14 and 27 July 1794
• The Carmelite nuns, Martyrs of Compiègne, guillotined and buried in one of two mass graves
• Jean-Antoine Roucher (1745–1794), poet, recipient of Gabelle, guillotined, 7 Thermidor Year II (see the engraving The last wagon)
• Alexandre de Beauharnais guillotined, 5 Thermidor, Year II (23 July 1794)
• Frederick III, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg, German prince, colonel of the German troops, the battalion commander of the Fontaine-Grenelle, brother-in-law of the prince Antoine Aloys of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and brother of Amélie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg, guillotined, 6 messidor, Year II (23 July 1794).
• Marguerite Louise d'Orléans, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (1645–1721)
• "G. Lenotre" (nom-de-plume of Louis Léon Théodore Gosselin, 1855–1935), French academician, historian and author of many works about the French Revolution, including 'Jardin de Picpus".