The Père Lachaise Cemetery is a 110-acre cemetery in Paris, France; it is the largest cemetery in the city and the most-visited in the world, with more than 3.5 million annual visitors. The cemetery opened in the 20th arrondissement in 1804 and was named for Father Francois de la Chaise, confessor to King Louis XIV. The cemetery was expanded in 1824, 1829, 1832, 1842 and 1850, coming to house 1 million bodies, among them 147 Communards who were executed by firing squad at the "Communards' Wall", Adolphe Thiers, Michel Ney, Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde. The cemetery is also the site of three World War I memorials.
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The cemetery in 2022