Who rests at Père-Lachaise?
François Marie d'ABOVILLE
Two cannon captured from the enemy hold up his tomb.
Voir la ficheAugustin d'ABOVILLE
His stone has him born in 1774; he was born in 1773.
Voir la ficheAndré Joseph ABRIAL
The stone names the son, who died twelve years after him, and not the minister.
Voir la ficheEdmond ADAM
His bronze bust, by Aimé Millet, was stolen in 2006.
Voir la ficheAlexandre AGUADO
He lent a hundred million francs to the Spanish Crown and financed Rossini.
Voir la ficheMireille ALBRECHT
Daughter of Berty Albrecht, she spent her life making her mother's voice heard.
Voir la ficheCharles AMOUROUX
A journeyman hatter, elected to the Commune, deported and then a deputy.
Voir la ficheGeneral Andranik
The Armenian national hero rested here for seventy-three years before going home.
Voir la ficheAntoine d'ANDRÉ
President of the Constituent Assembly, then secret agent of the kings in exile.
Voir la ficheVincent ANSQUER
“Les âmes des justes sont dans la main de Dieu.” — the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God.
Voir la ficheFrançois Antoine APPEL
He printed the Bon Marché's boxes in colour, and exported as far as the United States.
Voir la ficheFrançois Victor Emmanuel ARAGO
Barbès's lawyer, minister in 1870, ambassador in Bern: the son of Arago the scientist.
Voir la ficheErnest ARRIGHI DE CASANOVA
The minister whose task was to keep France from worrying while Napoleon III waged war in Italy.
Voir la ficheFrançois ASTIER DE LA VIGERIE
One of the three d'Astier brothers, each a Resistance fighter in his own way.
Voir la fichePhilippe AUBERNON
His epitaph has him fighting at Arcole four years before the battle.
Voir la ficheHubertine AUCLERT
She smashed a ballot box in 1908 to prove that women's suffrage did not exist.
Voir la fichePierre AUGEREAU
The son of a fruit seller, he ended up a marshal and a duke.
Voir la ficheJean-Pierre AUGEREAU
“Death parted them, death reunites them”: two generals, one tomb, paid for by the survivor.
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