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  Cimetière de Passy
Outside the precincts of the capital, Cimetière de Montmartre was built in the north, Cimetière Père Lachaise in the east, and Cimetière de Montparnasse in the south.
After World War I, the retaining wall of the Passy cemetery was adorned with a bas relief in honor of the soldiers.
The beautiful cemetery is sheltered by a bower of chestnut trees, and sits in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ci/Cimetiere_de_Passy.html   (211 words)

  
 Andre Chabot - articles for the monthly column "Cemetery"
the cemeteries of Mount Herzl, Zion and Tamir in Jerusalem.
nudes in the Südfriedhof (Soutch Cemetery) of Leipzig.
the Vagan’kovskoe Cemetery and the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
www.andrechabot.com /english/publications/reportages_pierre_actual.html   (2016 words)

  
 Geonomy
Place: Fairmount Cemetery, Newark 'fairmount cemetery' is a 150 acre (607,000 m²) victorian cemetery in the west ward of newark, new jersey in the neighborhood of fairmount.
Place: Montmartre Cemetery 'montmartre cemetery' (fr: cimetière de montmartre) is a famous cemetery located at 37 avenue samson, in the 18th 'arrondissement' of paris, france.
an improved road to the cemetery was constructed in 1840, and the caretaker's cottage was erected in 1872.
www.geonomy.com /geonomy/viewHome.do?zoom=2&tagName=Cemeteries   (2287 words)

  
 Montmartre Cemetery photos ~ Paris - France (tip2trip.com ~ places of Europe)
Montmartre Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as they presented health hazards.
Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century: Montmartre in the north, Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, Passy Cemetery in the west and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.
tip2trip.com /france/paris/montmartre-cemetery/1   (125 words)

  
 Pere Lachaise Cemetery - Japan
The cemetery was established by Napoleon in 1804.
Cemeteries had been banned inside Paris in 1786, after the closure of the Cimetière des Innocents on the fringe of Les Halles food market, on the grounds that it presented a health hazard.
Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, Montmartre Cemetery in the north, Père Lachaise in the east, and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.
pere-lachaise-cemetery.zdnet.co.za /zdnet/Pere_Lachaise_Cemetery   (1636 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Passy Cemetery
The Montmartre Cemetery was built in the north, the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in the east, and the Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.
The Passy Cemetery, however, was built in the heart of the city.
The retaining wall of the cemetery is adorned with a bas relief commemorating the soldiers who fell in the Great War.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Passy_Cemetery   (438 words)

  
 Morisot
Berthe Morisot died in Paris on March 2, 1895 and was interred in the Cimetière de Passy, the same cemetery where Édouard Manet is buried.
The subject matter for her paintings was essentially restricted to life in the upper middle-class Paris suburb of Passy where she lived with her parents.
At the current time (2006), Passy is still one of the wealthiest parts of Paris and features some of the highest housing prices in all of France.
impressionist1877.tripod.com /morisot.htm   (1497 words)

  
 Paris cemeteries: Permanent Parisians -- a review
Epitaph on the grave of Jane Henriot, Passy cemetery.
Passy is also my favorite cemetery in Paris: the unique statuary and fantastic stories, all packaged together into such a small place that is hardly ever visited by the tourists, is a real treat.
But Passy symbolizes one of the oddest problems with the Culbertson/Randall book: their map of the cemetery is wrong.
pariscemeteries.blogspot.com /2006/11/permanent-parisians-review.html   (1504 words)

  
 Passy cemetery
Opened in 1820, Passy cemetery is named after what was then a local village, and covers only about 1.7 hectares (4.2 acres).
It may be small but Passy has some of the city's finest funerary sculptures and is also the final resting place of several interesting characters.
Note that cemeteries, like the parks of Paris are always closed during high wind alerts.
www.pariscemeteries.com /pagecems/passy.html   (289 words)

  
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The gates of the Passy Cemetery were wide open, but nobody was inside.
"Passy is a small Gothic graveyard with plenty of huge mausoleums, which were built during the 19th century.
After violating his first grave, Nico said that he spent the much of his free time searching the cemetery for new graves to desecrate.
www.crimelibrary.com /features/fea_printPage.asp?curPage=&thisFile=/serial_killers/weird/nico_claux/3.html   (648 words)

  
 Cimetiere de Passy - meaning of word
The Cimetière de Passy is a List of famous cemeteries located in 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing, in the quarter of Passy in the 16ème arrondissement, Paris of Paris, France.
Outside the precincts of the capital, Cimetière de Montmartre was built in the north, Père Lachaise in the east, and Cimetière du Montparnasse in the south.
Opened in 1820 in the expensive residential and commercial districts of the Right Bank near the Champs Elysees, by 1874 the small Passy Cemetery had become the aristocratic necropolis of Paris.
wordsonline.org /Cimetiere_de_Passy   (264 words)

  
 Jewish Cemeteries
Jewish cemeteries are an important source of genealogical data.
At 25 km SW of Strasbourg, the Rosenwiller Jewish Cemetery, founded in the later 14th century, contains graves of Jews from several villages in Lower-Alsace, which had no cemeteries of their own (see the list of these villages).
Map of the cemetery and location of the tombs in the corresponding squares.
www.genealoj.org /ENtexte/page08.html   (1355 words)

  
 paris.htm
The catacombs are the receptacles for millions of bones from the old Paris cemeteries which had become so full that they were literally overflowing.
Now cemeteries in Paris are completely unlike cemeteries elsewhere in that they are repositories of French celebrities past, little history lessons and places of fine sculpture all at the same time.
Just within the ornate gates is a tiny office where a map of the cemetery can be obtained with the names and places of all the notables buried there.
www.geocities.com /parivision2003/paris.htm   (3108 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Permanent Parisians: An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris: Books: Judi Culbertson,Tom Randall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
My favorite cemeterie in all of Paris is Passy, a peaceful, quaint refuge underneath the Eiffel Tower, where birds are chirping and old graves lay covered in simple coats of moss and chipped iron, you can almost feel the restful sleep of those who reside within its walls.
Like one reviewer Passy is also my favorite cemetery in Paris: the unique statuary and fantastic stories, all packaged together into such a small place that is hardly ever visited by the tourists, is a real treat.
Walking through the cemeteries of this wonderful city is a true experience that will make the traveler appreciate all the notables who selected Paris as their home.
www.amazon.com /Permanent-Parisians-Illustrated-Guide-Cemeteries/dp/0802774709   (2823 words)

  
 Princess Leila Pahlavi, 2002 a year after
The whole ceremony flashes in front of my eyes: At the gates of the Passy cemetery an old man offers a white rose to each mourner.
She will be an inspiration to us as we move on to fulfill our national dream, our dream that one day our country will rise again like a phoenix from the ashes of its present cataclysm.
As I walk out of the cemetery I think of white flowers and a white revolution that is still to come, a revolution of understanding and peace in the minds and hearts of the people of Princess Leila's beloved country.
www.farahpahlavi.org /lx.html   (986 words)

  
 THE IRANIAN: Features, Persian Princess, Cyrus Kadivar
On that Saturday afternoon in June, shortly before the funeral, a crowd of some two thousand mourners had lined up at the cemetery of Passy near the old northern walls of Paris, south and southwest of Trocadéro.
Raised high on the shoulders of her compatriots, Princess Leila's coffin was carried proudly towards a white marquee erected beside a freshly open grave lit up by a ray of sunlight.
After the mourners had retired from the scene I walked up to the open grave and threw my white rose with the afterthought that in death, perhaps now she had found the profound serenity which she had yearned all her life in this ethereal and timeless place away from home.
www.iranian.com /CyrusKadivar/2001/June/Leila/index.html   (1905 words)

  
 Cemetière du Père Lachaise
Père Lachaise Cemetery (French: Cimetière du Père-Lachaise) (officially, cimetière de l’Est ?eastern cemetery?) () is the largest cemetery in the city of Paris at 118 acres (48 ha), though there are larger cemeteries in Paris suburbs.
This is the wall against which 147 Communards, the last defenders of the workers’ district Belleville, were shot on Sunday, 28 May 1871?the last day of the "Bloody Week" (Semaine Sanglante) ending the Paris Commune.
She was born in El Salvador on April 10, 1901.
www.globalguide.org /index.html?id=200540   (1302 words)

  
 Paris vacation rental 16th district
In the historical cemetery of Passy one finds the graves of famous personalities who lived here, Giraudoux, Manet, Faure, Debussy, Fernandel, Carnot, Jean Patou, Berthe Morisot, Talleyrand, Guerlain, the Cognaq-Jay couple, founders of the Samaritaine and many others.
The apartment was in just the right location, only a stone's throw from the Passy stop on the No. 6 Metro and at the foot of rue de Passy.
When we arrived, we found the apartment to be spacious enough to permit two people to relax without feeling that we were on top of one another.
www.apartexchange.com /rent_Paris_16th_squarecharlesdickens.htm   (552 words)

  
 A Day in Paris
We had a tour of the Passy area yesterday.
We started at the Eiffel Tower and from there headed into the Passy cemetery -- a huge presence in my neighborhood, but a place I've never visited.
There is actually a chiseled lightening rod on the building that stands at the place where Franklin lived in Passy.
parisdaily.hi-fipop.com /2005/04/passy-walk.html   (429 words)

  
 Pere-Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise) - Paris - Reviews of Pere-Lachaise Cemetery (Cimetiere du ...
This famous cemetery is the burial site of numerous French luminaries - authors, writers, musicians and more.
"Père Lachaise is a cemetery..." VirtualTourist.com, Sep 13, 2002
"At the Père-Lachaise Cemetery..." VirtualTourist.com, Sep 7, 2002
www.tripadvisor.com /Attraction_Review-g187147-d188698-Reviews-Pere_Lachaise_Cemetery_Cimetiere_du_Pere_Lachaise-Paris_Ile_de_France.html   (727 words)

  
 Parler Paris Newsletter
Cemeteries in Paris are widely visited, not only by those who grieve, but by those who find them as fascinating as I do.
A small cemetery with just over 900 graves, a few of its best known residents are writers, actors, musicians and artists we would all recognize.
Later, several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the then precincts of the capital in the early 19th-century -- Montmartre being one of them (in the north), Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, Passy Cemetery in the west and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.
www.parlerparis.com /issues/pparis1-11-06.html   (1621 words)

  
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She had no profession, put her Bennington education to no use whatever, and apparently lived the life of the rich international exile parasite.
Small wonder she was depressed.] Saturday June 16 1:47 PM ET Daughter of Iran's Late Shah Buried in Paris PARIS (Reuters) - The youngest daughter of the late Shah of Iran, found dead in a London hotel room last weekend, was buried in the Passy Cemetery in Paris on Saturday.
The flower-laden coffin of Princess Leila Pahlavi, 31, was driven through the fl iron gates of the large cemetery on the Place Trocadero at 3 p.m.
www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001cov/Last_Shah's_daughter_buried_in_paris   (374 words)

  
 harolding: hanging around cemeteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
(It's a somewhat ornate, wealthy Jewish cemetery in a fairly not ornate nor wealthy, largely Protestant suburb.) They were taken during a spring break snowstorm in March.
I’ve been aware of Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery for weeks or months or maybe even longer; at the very least, since PBS’s Cemetery Special which aired last fall.
The first half of the set is the majority of the cemetery, the second half is from the not so well kept up portion of the place.
www.harolding.com /2006_04_01_archive.html   (805 words)

  
 Q & A - New York Times
Born to an Ohio family of great wealth, Barney moved to Paris as a student and pursued her interest in French culture, writing primarily in French.
She died in 1972 and is buried in the ninth division of the Passy cemetery.
Also buried at Passy is Renee Vivien, an expatriate poet from Britain who was among Barney's loves.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E1DD143FF930A35752C0A96F958260&sec=travel&pagewanted=print   (984 words)

  
 harolding: hanging around cemeteries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Which isn’t to say that you should feel too sorry for the cemetery, of course; being the second best (or maybe third, after Passy?) cemetery in Paris is still enough to draw an awful lot of tourists.
I remember dragging my mother around the cemetery during our first trip to Paris when I was in high school, insisting that we visit Samuel Beckett’s grave, along with Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre’s, and Eugene Ionesco's.
The sort of sad, hilarious thing about going to see these particular graves (other than revealing that I was seemingly the world’s most pretentious 16-year-old) was realizing that they were probably the most plain, modest headstones in the cemetery.
www.harolding.com /2006/04/map-of-montparnasse.html   (254 words)

  
 Cemeteries- Paris, France - VirtualTourist.com
This is a huge cemetery, where Jim Morrisson from The Doors is buried.
At the time the cemetery opened, it was seen as too far from the city and attracted very few interments.
Passy cemetery is small cemetery near Place du Trocadero.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/France/Ile_de_France/Paris-99080/Things_To_Do-Paris-Cemeteries-R-9.html   (649 words)

  
 Rue Rude: November 2006
The cemetery is on the side of the hill of Ménilmontant, in the east of Paris, and slopes gently downhill among trees.
I saw the tomb of Molière (at the time, actors were considered immoral and their bodies were normally thrown into a common grave; the Sun King had to intervene in person to spare Molière this fate, and even then he had to be buried secretly by night).
The Passy cemetery was quiet and lovely and it was easy to forget that the city lay just outside.
www.ruerude.com /2006/11/index.html   (6638 words)

  
 Edouard Manet (1832-1883)
Berthe Morisot survived him until she died in 1895, also in Paris.
They were buried in the same grave at the Passy Cemetery in Paris.
Edouard Manet was a French painter and printmaker, whose work inspired the Impressionist style, but who refused to identify his own work with Impressionism.
www.paulvanrensburg.com /manet.html   (1223 words)

  
 Gabriel Urbain Fauré - Elegance and Restraint [Biography]
On 4 November, 1924, at the age of 79, Gabriel Fauré died in Paris from pneumonia.
He was given a state funeral at the Madeleine and his Requiem was played before he was laid to rest in Passy cemetery.
His legacy includes a vast array of chamber works, piano pieces and some of the finest of all French songs.
www.humanitiesweb.org /human.php?s=c&p=c&a=b&ID=52   (1557 words)

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