The Père Lachaise Cemetery ('Cimetière du Père-Lachaise' in French) is the largest Paris cemetery with a total surface of 118.6 acres (48 ha).
The cemetery takes is named after Père François de la Chaise (1624-1709), Louis XIV's confessor. Napoleon I established this cemetery in 1804, although cemeteries had been banned in 1786 inside Paris, due to a suspected health hazard.
The Pere Lachaise Cemetery, located in the 20th arrondissement, is one of the most famous and most visited cemeteries in the world, with hundreds of thousands of visitors flocking every year around the graves of famous people who somehow made the history in the past two centuries.
Among those interred in the The Pere Lachaise Cemetery are: Heloïse and Pierre Abelard, the famous French lovers of the 12th century, Honore de Balzac, 19th century French novelist, Gustave Caillebotte, French impressionist painter, Frederic Chopin, Polish composer, Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor, Moliere, French playwright, Jim Morrison, American author and singer with The Doors, Edith Piaf, French singer, Camille Pissarro, French impressionist painter, Victor Schoelcher, who initated the abolition of slavery, Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and writer, and many more.
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