lying at the foot of montmartre in the 18th arrondissement of paris is a secluded cemetery. whilst not as sought out as its more illustrious contemporaries, pere lachaise to the east or montparnasse to the south, montmarte is a leafy and idyllic fina...

At the time of its opening, the cemetery was considered to be situated too far from the city and attracted few funerals. Moreover, many Roman Catholics refused to have their graves in a place that had not been blessed by the Church. During 1804, the ...