Outgoing
Picpus Cemetery 1
Walking Tour
Picpus Cemetery 2
Picpus Cemetery 3
Picpus Cemetery 4
Picpus Cemetery 5

Picpus Cemetery

Bel-Air

Step through unmarked doors into one of Paris's most secretive historical sites. This private cemetery holds the mass graves of Revolutionary Terror victims, including sixteen nuns who sang as they walked to the guillotine, alongside the tomb of Lafayette, the French hero of American Independence.

Private cemetery
French Revolution history
American history connection
Peaceful atmosphere

Tips

🎵"the sixteen nuns who went one by one to the guillotine singing hymns"
🇺🇸"buried here in soil brought over from Bunker Hill"

Picpus Cemetery

Pour y acceder :, 35 Rue de Picpus, 75012 Paris, France