Passy Cemetery

The stone walls of Passy Cemetery hide the final resting places of the French elite behind a high, gated perimeter in the middle of a busy neighborhood. Unlike the sprawling expanses of Père Lachaise, this site remains compact and intensely private. Edouard Manet and Berthe Morisot lie within these grounds, surrounded by elaborate chapels that mimic the grand townhouses of the sixteenth arrondissement. A young woman once climbed the wall at night just to place flowers on the grave of a forgotten Russian princess.