Cimetière Sainte-Marguerite

The Cimetière Sainte-Marguerite is a quiet, gravelled space that once served as a primary burial ground for the Faubourg Saint-Antoine district. Established in sixteen thirty-seven, it functioned as a vital local necropolis for over a century and a half. It stands directly beside the church that shares its name, where the architect Victor Louis once designed a neoclassical chapel. During the French Revolution, the site became a place of profound sorrow when it received the bodies of those executed at the nearby Place de la Bastille. You are walking through an area that once held mass graves for hundreds of victims from that turbulent era.