Cimetière Parisien de la Chapelle

The Cimetière Parisien de la Chapelle is defined by the stark, industrial rhythm of the raised metro tracks and factories that crowd its perimeter walls. Opened in eighteen-fifty, it was the first of the cemeteries created to serve Paris beyond the city walls, established when the capital ran out of burial space. It houses the remains of the workers who built the northern suburbs, alongside the grave of the anarchist Louise Michel, whose funeral here drew thousands of mourners in nineteen-oh-five.