Discover the Best Père Lachaise Cemetery Tours

The 110-acre final resting place is the largest cemetery in Paris and is the city's first municipal and garden cemetery. Père Lachaise Cemetery was established in 1804 and is named after King Louis XIV's confessor Jesuit priest François de la Chaise. It contains three World War I memorials as well as the graves of musician Jim Morrison, writer Oscar Wilde, composer Frederic Chopin, novelist Honore de Balzac, decipherer Jean-François Champollion, writer Jean de La Fontaine, mime Marcel Marceau, actor Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret. The picturesque cemetery has a chapel, crematorium and columbarium, as well.

Père Lachaise Cemetery Overview