Cemeteries in France

The people's champion of the French Revolution was so overcome by grief at his wife's death that he exhumed her in the dead of night to make one final replica of her face.

The ruins of an abandoned cemetery are among the last remnants of the old village of La Boulaye before a wealthy landowner had it relocated.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

The Nobel-Prize-winning author of The Stranger is buried beneath a simple gravestone in a sleepy French village.

This secret cemetery where no flag is allowed to fly holds the bodies of American soldiers convicted of heinous crimes during WWII.

The remains of this ornate chapel now act as a portal to a cramped French cemetery.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This little-known relic crypt holds stolen parts of a Roman Empress.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The Cimetière des Chiens et Autres Animaux Domestiques is one of the oldest pet cemeteries in the world.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.