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Start from Javel metro station (line 10). Take exit 2 onto Rue de la Convention.
Access is also possible via the RER C: take the main exit, turn left and cross Quai André Citroën at the traffic lights on the left, then head right along Avenue Émile Zola.
In the description below, the names appearing on the graves may be highlighted for three different reasons:
1) Graves of notable figures, in which case a lower-case letter in brackets refers to a short entry in the “Places to see” section, where names are listed in the order they appear on the route.
2) Particularly original monuments.
3) Useful landmarks in the area.
(S/E) On leaving the metro station, go straight ahead and turn immediately left to cross Rue de la Convention. Follow Rue Balard, which turns left almost immediately. Continue straight ahead, and you will cross Rue Sébastien Mercier on your left.
(1) When you reach Place de la Montagne du Goulet, take the second left, passing under a portico, into Rue Clément Myionnet (pedestrianised). Cross Rue Léonine (the bell tower of Saint-Christophe de Javel Church is on the left) and continue straight ahead into Rue Emmanuel Chauvière.
(2) At the end, turn right. Cross Rue des Cévennes and continue along Rue Gutenberg. At the next junction, turn left into Rue Cauchy. Cross Rue des Bergers on the left-hand side, walk past the Maison des Journalistes on your left and note the photographic exhibition adorning its walls (Portraits of a Resistance, Ukraine 2004–2022). At the end, turn right into Rue Saint-Charles and you will immediately reach the entrance to Grenelle Cemetery.
The route inside the cemetery is a guide only and can be adapted in various ways.
(3) Enter the cemetery and turn immediately right. At the end of the path, take a grassy track on the left. Note on the right a grave that looks as though it has been hewn straight from a granite quarry. Still on the right, note the Laurent family grave, which is lavishly decorated with flowers. Shortly after a chapel on the left, turn left and weave your way between the Montrim and Bierer graves. You will come out onto a path; follow it to the right and you will immediately find, on the left, the grave of Jean Monge (a), adorned with a geometric sculpture reminiscent of his profession.
At the end of the path, turn right onto a wide track. At the T-junction, turn left and you will immediately find the Schmid family grave, adorned with a sculpture depicting a winged woman lifting a child, who is none other than the son of Henri Schmid (b), who died at the age of four. Cross a path on the left and reach the grave of Marius Rémondot (c), adorned with a sculpture depicting a mourner. Continue along the path and note, on the right-hand side, a grave adorned with a sort of metal porch. Then turn left to reach a small roundabout (the grave of Gabrielle Longepied, with a headstone featuring an Art Deco-style bas-relief).
(4) Then turn left onto Avenue Principale. At the next junction, turn right. At the end, follow a grassy path to the left. At the next junction, turn left onto Avenue Centrale. Turn immediately right at the corner of a grave adorned with graffiti-like markings. Follow a grassy path and pass the grave of Louis Coudouret (d).
At the end, turn left onto Chemin Transversal. Note the grave of the Chirac family (though it is not known whether there is any family connection to the former President of the Republic). At the junction, turn right. Note, on the left-hand side, the grave of the Barbecot and Gaulet families, whose headstone is adorned with a bas-relief depicting the Last Supper. Continue straight on to the exit.
(3) On leaving the cemetery, there are two options:
- Retrace your steps to Javel metro station (S).
- As shown on the map, follow Rue Saint-Charles to the right. Take the first left, Rue Varet, and walk alongside a sports ground on your right. When the street turns left, take Rue Jongkind (pedestrianised) on the right and turn right immediately onto it.
(5) At a sort of square, turn left into Square Jean Cocteau. Pass a playground on your left and, at a sort of roundabout, veer left. Leave the square and follow Avenue Félix Faure to the left. Pass an escalator leading out of a metro station, then a set of traffic lights. At the next set of traffic lights, turn right, cross Rue de Lourmel and you will immediately find the metro station of the same name (line 8) (E).
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