Cimetière de Montmartre

The Cimetière de Montmartre sits deep within a hollow that was once a working gypsum quarry. During the chaos of the French Revolution, this abandoned industrial pit served as a makeshift mass grave for those who perished in the conflict. In eighteen twenty-five, the city transformed this rugged scar in the landscape into an official necropolis to alleviate the severe overcrowding of churchyards in the center of Paris. Continue