Saint-Just cemetery

One of the oldest cemeteries in France, opened in March 1793, eleven years before Père Lachaise in Paris!

Situated on a hillside at the foot of the city walls, on a sloping 5-hectare site, it enjoys a unique panorama. Among the 2,000 tombs, some present a very varied range of funerary architecture and tell individual or family stories.
There are many tombs of prominent people from Laon: clergymen, former mayors of the town (including Antoine de Beffroy de la Grève, Jacques-François Glatigny and Georges Ermant), local notables (such as Lucien Limasset, founder of the first Syndicat d'Initiatives before the First World War, and the revolutionary Jacques François Laurent Devisme).
You can also come across the obelisk erected in memory of the mobile guards killed in the explosion of the Laon citadel in September 1870, or the graves of eight Commonwealth soldiers (whose plane crashed nearby in May 1942...).

It's an unusual place in the town to discover, and one that has recently been enhanced by the Groupe de Recherches et d'Études du Cimetière Saint-Just (GRECS)! 

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