Parisian Revolutionary cemeteries network

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The Parisian Revolutionary cemeteries network is a group of burial grounds in Paris historically associated with the French Revolution, where many victims of revolutionary violence and notable figures of the era were interred.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cultural heritage concept
historical cemetery network
associatedWithEvent French Revolution NERFINISHED
associatedWithGovernment Revolutionary Tribunal NERFINISHED
associatedWithPeriod Reign of Terror NERFINISHED
associatedWithPlace Barrière de Vincennes NERFINISHED
Barrière du Trône NERFINISHED
Place de la Révolution (now Place de la Concorde) NERFINISHED
Place du Trône-Renversé (now Place de la Nation) NERFINISHED
associatedWithPractice anonymous burials
burial near execution sites
use of common graves
containsRemainsOf commoners executed during the Revolution
nobility of the Ancien Régime
religious orders members
thousands of unidentified victims
culturalSignificance symbol of the human cost of the French Revolution
hasPart Cimetière de Clamart (révolutionnaire) NERFINISHED
Cimetière de Picpus NERFINISHED
Cimetière de Sainte-Marguerite NERFINISHED
Cimetière de la Chapelle-Expiatoire (site of former Madeleine cemetery) NERFINISHED
Cimetière de la Madeleine NERFINISHED
Cimetière des Errancis NERFINISHED
Cimetière des Innocents (late use during Revolution) NERFINISHED
heritageStatus part of Parisian revolutionary heritage
historicalPeriod late 18th century
locatedIn Paris
locatedInCountry France
memorialFunction commemoration of victims of revolutionary violence
remembrance of the French Revolution
notableBurialsInclude aristocrats executed during the French Revolution
clergy executed during the French Revolution
counter-revolutionaries
revolutionary militants
victims of the Reign of Terror
relatedTo Parisian execution sites of the French Revolution
history of Paris cemeteries
political violence in the French Revolution
researchField French Revolutionary history
memory studies
thanatology
timeOfMainUse circa 1789–1799
typeOfBurial individual graves of notable figures
mass grave sites
usedFor burial of notable revolutionary figures
burial of political prisoners
burial of victims of the guillotine
mass burials

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Madeleine Cemetery, Paris partOf Parisian Revolutionary cemeteries network
Errancis Cemetery, Paris partOf Parisian Revolutionary cemeteries network
subject surface form: Errancis Cemetery
this entity surface form: Paris Revolutionary cemeteries network