Loyasse Cemetery () is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

in the city of

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

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. The cemetery is located on the

Fourvière Fourvière () is a city district of Lyon, France, a hill immediately west of the old part of the town, rising from the river Saône. It is the site of the original Roman settlement of Lugdunum in 43 BC. The district contains many religious build ...

hill in the western part of the city, not far away from the

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and

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. It is the 'richer' cemetery of Lyon, when compared with the Cimetière de La Guillotière, with elaborate graves in various architectural styles.

Notable interments

Pierre Bossan Pierre-Marie Bossan (23 July 1814, in Lyon – 23 July 1888, in La Ciotat) was a French historicist architect, a pupil of Henri Labrouste, specialising in ecclesiastical architecture. Life and work In 1844 he was appointed architect to the di ...

, architect of the

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, Italian anarchist and assassin *

Ferdinand Ferber Louis Ferdinand Ferber (8 February 1862 – 22 September 1909) was a French Army officer who played an important role in the development of aviation during the early 1900s. Although his aircraft experiments were belatedly successful, his early ...

(1862–1909), French aviator. *

Émile Guimet Émile Étienne Guimet (2 June 183612 August 1918) was a French industrialist, traveler and connoisseur. An important collector of artefacts related to Oriental religions and Asian arts, Guimet is the founder of the Musée Guimet. Life and ca ...

(1836–1918), founder of the

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Édouard Herriot Édouard Marie Herriot (; 5 July 1872 – 26 March 1957) was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister (1924–1925; 1926; 1932) and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the f ...

(1872–1957), French

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politician of the Third Republic who served three times as

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Létiévant Jean Joseph Emile Létiévant (1830 in Marboz (Ain Department), Lyons – 1884) was a French surgeon remembered for drawing the first aesthesiography. Biography Jean Joseph Emile Létiévant studied medicine in Lyons, Montpellier and Paris. In 1 ...

(1830–1884), French surgeon remembered for drawing the first aesthesiography. *

Nizier Anthelme Philippe Nizier Anthelme Philippe (25 April 1849 – 2 August 1905) was a reputed healer and miracle worker. Although he had no formal medical training, many academic and social honors were conferred on him during the 1880s and 1890s in Russia, France, Ita ...

(1849–1905) * Jean-Pierre Pléney *

Jean-Baptiste Willermoz Jean-Baptiste Willermoz (10 July 1730 – 29 May 1824) was a French Freemason and Martinist who played an important role in the establishment of various systems of Masonic high-degrees in his time in both France and Germany. Biography Jean-B ...

Sources

* Pelletier, Jean, nd: ''Connaître son arrondissement: le 5e'', pp. 58–50. Éditions lyonnaise d'art et d'histoire

External links

Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs (Philippe Landru): Lyon (69): cimetière de Loyasse

Lyon municipal website: Cimetière de Loyasse ancien

Lyon municipal website: Cimetière de Loyasse nouveau
{{DEFAULTSORT:Loyasse Cemetery 5th arrondissement of Lyon Cemeteries in Lyon

Notable interments

See also

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