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".

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Famous quotes containing the words famous and/or tombs:

    “Hunger makes you restless. You dream about food—not just any food, but perfect food, the best food, magical meals, famous and awe-inspiring, the one piece of meat, the exact taste of buttery corn, tomatoes so ripe they split and sweeten the air, beans so crisp they snap between the teeth, gravy like mother’s milk singing to your bloodstream.”
    —Dorothy Allison (b. 1953)

    “How old the world is! I walk between two eternities.... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel ever deeper, that forest that is tottering and those great masses above my head about to fall? I see the marble of tombs crumbling into dust; and yet I don’t want to die!”
    —Denis Diderot (1713–1784)