Location: 35 Rue de Picpus, 75012 Paris, Paris.
Private cemetery where 1,306 victims guillotined during the Terror are buried in two mass graves. They were executed at the nearby Place du Trône (now Place de la Nation) guillotine site during June-July 1794. Lafayette's wife is among those interred here. The only cemetery in Paris still privately owned by descendants of victims.
Period recorded for this site: 18th century.
Theme: French Revolution.
Coordinates: 48.84020, 2.39880.
This plaque is a stop on the walk: French Revolution: Bastille & Revolutionary Paris.
On French Revolution: Bastille & Revolutionary Paris: Cimetière de Picpus, private cemetery with 1,306 victims guillotined during the Terror, buried in mass graves near the former Place du Trône guillotine.
Other plaques within a few minutes' walk: Fondation Rothschild - Souvenir de la Shoah (233 m); Famille Richard (245 m); Pierre Henry (282 m); Jean-Pierre Dudraisil (298 m); Habitants déportés rue Claude Decaen (305 m).