Cimetière de la Villette

The Cimetière de la Villette stands as a quiet survivor of a vanished village. Before this area was folded into the city of Paris in eighteen sixty, it was a separate agricultural commune called La Villette. This burial ground, opened in eighteen twenty-eight, was the fourth and final site dedicated to the residents of that village. As the suburb grew and the earlier sites were built over, this cemetery became the last physical connection to the families who cultivated these lands for centuries.