Père Lachaise Cemetery

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cemetery historic site tourist attraction

Père Lachaise Cemetery is a famous and historic cemetery in Paris known for its elaborate tombs and as the resting place of many notable cultural and political figures.

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Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cemetery → historic site → tourist attraction →
architect	Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart →
area	approximately 110 acres → approximately 44 hectares →
burialPlaceOf	Adolphe Thiers → Amedeo Modigliani → Colette → Communards of the Paris Commune → Frédéric Chopin → Félix Faure → Georges Bizet → Georges-Eugène Haussmann → Gertrude Stein → Gioachino Rossini → Honoré de Balzac → Isadora Duncan (cenotaph) → Jean de La Fontaine → Jim Morrison → Marcel Proust → Michel Ney → Molière → Oscar Wilde → Sarah Bernhardt → Théodore Géricault → Édith Piaf →
continent	Europe →
country	France →
foundedBy	Napoleon I →
hasPart	Crematorium of Père Lachaise → Mur des Fédérés → columbarium →
heritageDesignation	Monument historique (France) → protected site of France →
inception	1804 →
locatedIn	20th arrondissement of Paris → Paris →
namedAfter	François de la Chaise →
notableFor	being one of the most visited cemeteries in the world → elaborate funerary monuments → tombs of many artists and writers →
numberOfBurials	over one million →
openingDate	1804 →
operator	City of Paris →
ownedBy	City of Paris →
purpose	public burial ground →
significantEvent	first burial in 1804 →
tourist	major tourist destination in Paris →
website	https://www.paris.fr/lieux/cimetiere-du-pere-lachaise-1797 →

Referenced by (31)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Alexandre Colonna-Walewski → André Masséna → Antoine Laurent de Jussieu → Antoine-Jean Gros ("Cimetière du Père-Lachaise") → Claude Bernard → Eugène Delacroix → Eugène Viollet-le-Duc ("Cimetière du Père-Lachaise") → Ferdinand de Lesseps → Francisco Largo Caballero → François Certain Canrobert → Georges Cuvier → Honoré de Balzac → Jean Moréas ("Cimetière du Père-Lachaise") → Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès → Jean-Pierre Marielle → Lazare Carnot → Manuel Godoy → Marcel Proust → Molière ("Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (reinterred)") → Nestor Makhno → Odilon Redon ("Cimetière du Père-Lachaise") → Oscar Wilde → Pierre André Latreille → René François Armand Prudhomme → Richard Wright → Sully Prudhomme →	burialPlace
Green-Wood Cemetery → Kensal Green Cemetery →	inspiredBy
Augustin-Jean Fresnel →	buriedAt
Père Lachaise Cemetery ("Crematorium of Père Lachaise") →	hasPart
Jean-Pierre Cortot ("Cimetière du Père-Lachaise") →	placeOfBurial