French War Graves Cimetière du Père-Lachaise

The Cimetière du Père-Lachaise contains French war graves from both world wars.

Division 82: Mass grave with 35 young resistance members:
"ARDAINE Raymond - BETTENCOURT Luc - BROUARD Jean - CAILLEUX Jeanne - CASAS Victor - CAVALLI Antoine - DELEST Maxime - DEBIAUX Pierre - DEVES Joseph - FAGES Serge - FERON Paul - GAUTHIER André - GELIS Francis - GENARD Léon - GENESSAUX Henri - GUICHARD Ernest - HAUS Bernard - JUENBEKDJIAN Albert - LAMBERT Maurice - LAVEGIE Charmes - LE BOT née FOHLAND Micheline - LECLERQ Francis - LEMAITRE André - LIETARD René - MILLET Jacques - ORGAER André - PONCET Maurice - POSSIEN Roger - RIOU Eugène - RIQUET Jean-Louis - ROBERT Alfred - SOCHALA Daniel - VALETTE Alexis - VERNIER Henry - ZERLINE Raymond"

Division 97: Mass grave French resistance leaders:
- Jules Auffret (1902-1941)
- Corentin Cariou (1898-1942)
- Léon Frot (1900-1942)
- Maurice Gardette (1895-1941)
- Raymond Latarget (1911-1942)
- René Le Gall (1899-1942)
- Raymond Losserand (1903-1942)
- René Maurier (1901-1942)
- Charles Michels (1903-1941)
- Louis Thorez (1905-1942)

And an ossuary containing the bones of 2500 French soldiers who were killed in the siege of Paris, during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871).

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Source

• Text: Kaj Metz & Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Pierre-Yves Beaudouin