Photos From Picpus Cemetery: "Lafayette We Are Here"

Okay, I took a lot more photos of a cemetery than I expected to, but there's three incredible reasons why:

1. Lafayette is buried at Picpus Cemetery;
2. It contains the remains of 1,306 Parisians killed by the guillotine during the height of the Reign of Terror, from June 14 to July 27, 1794.
3. There are a number of memorials to French Christians killed by the Nazis in concentration camps.

(By the way, I never put all the photos I take on the blog -- not even close.  I take a lot of photos.)

Chapel Notre Dame de la Paix.

The cemetery entrance is to

the right as you look at

the chapel.

One of two markers in the chapel with

the names of the guillotined who are 

buried in mass graves in the cemetery.

Killed at age 33 at concentration

camp of Ellrich-Dora, aka

Mittlebau-Dora, established

as a subcamp of Buchenwald.

Died for France on Valentine's

Day, 1944 at Dachau.

A smaller chapel by Lafayette's

grave and by the mass graves

of those killed by Robespierre.

The Lafayette family grave.

America's favorite fighting

Frenchman died at age 76

of pneumonia in 1834.

New plaque from the DAR.

According to historians, it's quite likely

the colonists would not have won the

Revolution without France's help,

personified by the Marquis de

Lafayette, who Washington

referred  to as "his son."

This is for our peeps in the 22308

and nearby: a plaque from the

Mount Vernon Ladies Association

Another view of the 

Lafayette graves.

A burial spot for 304 martyrs

in the Reign of Terror.  Other

mass graves are behind this

one.  The area is

understandably closed

off to the public.

A memorial to twenty-three

 counter-revolutionaires,

known as "Vendeans." They were

guillotined on June 23, 1794.

A cross on the small chapel.

A couple killed at the Bastille by

the guillotine, known as 

"The National Razor."

An old house just outside

the cemetery.  If I lived there,

I would spend Halloween

at a hotel.