Cemetery Miséricorde is one of the major

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Nantes Nantes (, ; ; or ; ) is a city in the Loire-Atlantique department of France on the Loire, from the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic coast. The city is the List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, sixth largest in France, with a pop ...

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. It is located in the Hauts-Pavés - Saint-Félix district. It was opened in 1793 and over 10,000 graves have been placed their between then and 2010. With remains of famous people.

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Cimetière Miséricorde Nantes - Philippe Gengembre - Buste.jpg, Bust of W0170-BureauLeon 1837-1900 57061.JPG, Cimetière Miséricorde Nantes - Louis Babin-Chevaye - Médaillon.jpg, Nantes - Cimetière Miséricorde - Tombe de Cambronne.JPG, Grave of

Pierre Cambronne Pierre Jacques Étienne, 1st Viscount Cambronne (26 December 1770 – 29 January 1842), was a general of the First French Empire. A main strategist of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars, he was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo. M ...

Désiré-Colombe-grave-detail.jpg, Jules Désiré Colombe

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{{Reflist Cemeteries in France Nantes Cemeteries established in the 1790s