This was Paris’ first garden, or rural, cemetery, a model for later ones.
Montparasse Cemetery
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Mount Auburn Cemetery
Montmartre Cemetery
Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Built outside Paris in 1804, Pere Lachaise and other garden cemeteries were a reaction to crowded, unsanitary, sectarian burial grounds. It became the archetype for rural cemeteries of the 19th century in France, England and the US