Cimetière Levallois-Perret

The Levallois-Perret Cemetery opened in eighteen sixty-eight, serving the rapidly industrializing suburb that grew just outside the capital. While many travelers overlook this quiet municipal space, it serves as the final resting place for figures who shaped French history and culture. Among the more than twenty-seven thousand tombs, you will find the family chapel of Gustave Eiffel, the engineer who built the iconic iron lattice tower that defines the Paris skyline. Legend holds that his tomb is positioned to face toward that massive structural achievement he completed decades after purchasing his family plot.