Cimetière parisien de Thiais

Cimetière de Thiais
Entrance of the Cimetière de Thiais
Details
Established	1929
Location	Thiais
Type	Public (non-denominational)
Owned by	Mairie de Paris
Size	103 hectares (250 acres)
No. of graves	150,000
Find a Grave	2160380

Cimetière de Thiais (also known as Cimetière Parisien de Thiais) is a Parisien cemetery located in the commune of Thiais, which is in the Val-de-Marne department, in the Île-de-France region.

History

The cemetery was openened in october 1929 and is therefore the newest of the three Parisien cemeteries extra muros. The others being Cimetière de Bagneux and Cimetière de Pantin. It is now a true cosmopolitan cemetery, where many faiths are represented.

Notes

The cemetery is the second largest Parisien cemetery. Only Pantin is larger. There are about 6,000 trees. The cemetery is divided into 123 numbered divisions in which there are an estimated 150,000 graves. Because the cemetery is so large, people with a walking disability can be driven around.

Notable burials

• In divisions 48 through 55 there are Jardins de la Fraternité which are meant for burial of those who in Paris who could not afford burial or who could not be identified.
• There is a monument for those who have given their bodies to science (in division 102).
• Division 94 is reserverved for stillbirths.
• There are military sections in divisions 1 and 17.

There are also memorials to

• Monument for the French resistance (1942) (division 7)
• The Ermenonville crash in 1974 (division 16)
• The Paris-Brazzaville crash in 1961 (division 22)
• Monument for the Policier auxiliaires, persons who have chosen to their national service in the French national police force (division 25)
• Monument for French Indochina solidarity (division 36)
• Monuments for Génie de la Terre (Chinese protective deities) (division 36 and 44)

Individual burials

• Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry who was later reburied in the cemetery of Bourg-la-Reine
• André Berley
• Francisco Boix
• Marcel Bucard
• Jean Cassou
• Georges Catroux
• Paul Celan
• André Deed
• Jean-Luc Delarue
• Kurt Gerstein
• Jean Hérold-Paquis
• Catherine Hessling
• Loumia Hiridjee
• Gisèle Lestrange, wife of Paul Celan
• Pascal Mazzotti
• Farhad Mehrad
• Gérald Neveu
• Alice Prin
• Albert Raisner
• Joseph Roth
• Han Ryner
• Lev Sedov, son of Léon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova
• Franz Stock
• Laetitia Toureaux, murder victim
• Yevgeny Zamyatin
• Zog of Albania

Location

Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the main entrance to the Cimetière de Thiais is located at 261 Route de Fontainebleau, in Thiais (near the junction with Avenue de la Republique). There is also a smaller entrance: Porte Est on Avenue de Général de Gaulle.

The inhabitants of Thiais are buried in the communal cemetery just off Avenue Général de Gaulle, near Espace des 4 Saisons.

Public transport

The Cimetière de Thiais is a short walk from the Villejuif – Louis Aragon métro station, which can be reached by taking line 7. The nearest railway station is Pont de Rungis – Aéroport d'Orly which is served by line C, although it is not really nearby.

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The Cimetière de Thiais is also served by bus lines 185, 192, 285 and 396.

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There is a Vélib' station at Avenue de Fontainebleau (42703).

Gallery

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  Avenue O
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  Grave of Zog of Albania
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  Avenue Principale

External links

• Cimetière Parisien de Thiais on the Mairie de Paris website (including plan)