Loyasse Cemetery

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Loyasse Cemetery Cimetière de Loyasse
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Coordinates	45°45′44″N 4°48′43″E / 45.76222°N 4.81194°E / 45.76222; 4.81194

Loyasse Cemetery (

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It is the 'richer' cemetery of Lyon, when compared with the

, with elaborate graves in various architectural styles.

Notable interments

• Pierre Bossan, architect of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
• Sante Geronimo Caserio, Italian anarchist and assassin
• Ferdinand Ferber (1862–1909), French aviator.
• Émile Guimet (1836–1918), founder of the Guimet Museum
• Édouard Herriot (1872–1957), French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister
• Létiévant (1830–1884), French surgeon remembered for drawing the first aesthesiography.
• Nizier Anthelme Philippe (1849–1905)
• Jean-Pierre Pléney
• Jean-Baptiste Willermoz

See also

• List of cemeteries in France

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 (in French)
• Lyon municipal website: Cimetière de Loyasse ancien (in French)
• Lyon municipal website: Cimetière de Loyasse nouveau (in French)