The origins of this cemetery date back to the execution by rebels on 10 August 1792 of the Swiss Guards, whose bodies were thrown into quarries located here. It is the resting place of great artists and writers: Zola, moved to the Pantheon in 1904, Stendhal, Labiche, Degas, Nijinsky, Louis Jouvet, la Goulue, Offenbach, Truffaut, Dalida and Michel Berger...