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Start from Front Populaire metro station (line 12). Take exit 3 onto Avenue George Sand.
(S/E) As you exit the metro station, turn left, cross Rue Proudhon at the pedestrian crossing and continue straight ahead along Rue des Céréales (signposted further on). Walk past building 123, turn right and leave building 127 on your left. Cross Avenue des Caristes on the left-hand side, then turn left and walk alongside a small car park on your right. Then turn left and walk past building 112. At the roundabout, turn right onto Avenue des Magasins Généraux.
(1) At the end, go through a gate, turn left and pass under a small bridge. After a bus stop, you will reach the gate at No. 38. Continue for a few more metres until you reach the metal pedestrian gate. Ring the intercom. Once the gate has been opened remotely, follow the tarmac path straight ahead between two walls until you reach the cemetery entrance.
The route within the cemetery is a guide only and can be varied in various ways. In the description that follows, the names appearing on the graves may be highlighted for three different reasons:
1) Graves of notable figures, in which case one or two lower-case letters in brackets refer to a short entry in the ‘Places to see’ section, where the names are listed in the order in which they appear on the route.
2) Particularly original monuments.
3) Useful landmarks on the ground.
(2) Enter the cemetery and turn immediately right onto Avenue de l’Ouest. Turn left between the penultimate and last rows of graves. Walk past a grave decorated with a photograph of the Christ of Corcovado (the famous statue in Rio de Janeiro, created by the sculptor Paul Landowski). Then turn left and walk between the ‘Copa’ grave and three graves covered in moss. Note, on the right-hand side, a grave adorned with a vine and a small bust.
At the end, squeeze between two graves and turn right onto the Main Avenue. You’ll come to a grassy path (signposted) and immediately on your left you’ll see a grave adorned with a small medallion. Shortly afterwards, on the right-hand side, there is a raised sarcophagus (with an amphora and a small medallion on the plinth), followed by a tall stele adorned with a modern engraving.
(3) Weave your way between the sarcophagus and the engraved stele, then first turn right then left at the corner of the Moisset-Lefébure grave. Follow a grassy path and, after a few graves, note the grave of Jacques Varennes (a) on the left-hand side. Continue along the grassy path, pass a black stele on the right and carry on straight ahead. Note the highly decorated Ferreira grave on the left, in the third row.
At the end of the path, turn left onto a paved avenue (Avenue du Midi). The third grave on the left is decorated with figures of women at prayer. Then turn left at the corner of the Margot-Villard grave and follow a grassy path. Almost at the end, the grave in the second row on the left is decorated with a small birdcage.
You will emerge onto the Avenue Principale; follow it to the right and you will immediately come to a rotunda (with a large central metal cross; on the right, a medallion adorning the Millet tomb). Then take the first right, into Avenue Centrale, and follow it for a few dozen metres until you reach the Leclerc grave on the left, which resembles a ‘tall’ dolmen. Retrace your steps and, at the rotunda, turn right onto Avenue Principale.
(4) Turn right between the fourth and fifth rows of graves, leaving the Morel grave on your left. At the end, you’ll come to a paved path; follow it to the left, passing the ‘Avenue du Midi’ signs. Then turn left at the corner marked by a grave topped with a stone cross (the Rollin grave), leaving the Allaire grave on your right.
Follow a grassy path and note the grave of Alain Guérin (b) on the left. Further on, turn left at the corner of the Ruby-Lemerle grave. After two rows of graves, turn right onto a grassy path and you will immediately find, on the left, the grave of Eugène Lenormand (c), adorned with a photograph showing him in action, and that of his wife Louise Lenormand (d).
Then cross the Avenue Principale and continue opposite along a grassy path. At the end, follow a tarmac path to the left. At the ‘Avenue du Nord’ sign, turn left onto a grassy path. At the end, rejoin the Avenue Principale and follow it to the right for about twenty metres.
(4) Then turn right between the Bonnard and Verdier graves. At the end, rejoin the tarmac path and follow it to the left. Pass the “Avenue du Nord” sign and continue for a further two rows of graves.
(5) Turn left, leaving the Page grave on your right. After a few dozen metres, you’ll find Pierre Labric’s grave on your right. Retrace your steps.
(5) Follow Avenue du Nord to the left. Opposite the “Avenue du Nord” sign, you will find Jean Loualoup’s grave (f) on the right. Continue straight ahead and note the sculpture of a mourner on the Barriot grave on the right. Then turn left, leaving the Guérenne grave on your left. Note the medallion adorning the Juhel-Stoesser grave on the right.
Continue along the grassy path. At the end, turn right. You will immediately come out onto a tarmac path; follow it to the left until you reach the cemetery entrance/exit.
(2) Leave the cemetery and go straight on along the tarmac path. Manually open the pedestrian gate on the left. On the other side, turn right onto Avenue du Président Wilson and pass under the small bridge again.
(1) Turn right onto Avenue des Magasins Généraux. At the end, turn left at the foot of building 112. First turn right then left, passing building 130 on your right, building 102 on your left and building 127 on your right. Then turn slightly left into Rue des Céréales and walk alongside building 123 on your right. At the end of the street, cross at the pedestrian crossing and you’ll find the Front Populaire metro station immediately on your right (S/E).
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