Madeleine Cemetery, Paris

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Madeleine Cemetery in Paris was a former burial ground most historically noted as the original resting place of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette after their executions during the French Revolution.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf burial ground
former cemetery
approximateOpeningCentury 18th century
associatedReligion Roman Catholicism
associatedWith Reign of Terror
associatedWithEvent execution of Louis XVI
execution of Marie Antoinette
burialOf Charlotte Corday
Louis XVI of France
Madame du Barry
Marie Antoinette
other victims of the French Revolution
commemoratedBy Chapelle Expiatoire
surface form: Chapelle Expiatoire memorial
country France
demolishedOrClearedCentury 19th century
historicalFunction burial place for guillotine victims from Place de la Concorde
historicalPeriod French Revolution
locatedIn 8th arrondissement of Paris
Paris
locatedNear Place de la Concorde
Rue d’Anjou
namedAfter Église de la Madeleine
surface form: Church of the Madeleine
notableFor being original burial place of Louis XVI
being original burial place of Marie Antoinette
originalBurialSiteOfRemainsLaterMovedTo Basilica of Saint-Denis
partOf Parisian Revolutionary cemeteries network
status closed
no longer exists
successorSite Chapelle Expiatoire
usedFor burials

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Louis XVI of France burialPlace Madeleine Cemetery, Paris
Marie Antoinette burialPlace Madeleine Cemetery, Paris
this entity surface form: Madeleine Cemetery (original burial)
Jules Verne burialPlace Madeleine Cemetery, Paris
this entity surface form: La Madeleine Cemetery, Amiens
Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna burialPlace Madeleine Cemetery, Paris