Père-Lachaise Cemetery (Paris, France): a brief history

Northstar Gallery

January 1, 1998

New cemeteries were needed as an alternative to the horrendous burial conditions in the city. The fear of disease-causing “miasmas” from rotting corpses lead to designating new cemeteries on the outskirts of Paris.

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