Appointed by the prefect Nicolas Frochot, an architect laid out the overall plan of the young cemetery in 1804 — its great roundabouts, its green squares, its first chapel. Who was he?
The answer
Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart designed the cemetery's overall layout — paths, roundabouts and wooded squares — a break from the austere rows of older Parisian cemeteries.
This question belongs to the “Funerary Art” series of the Père-Lachaise quiz: ten questions, a story behind every right answer.