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, sited at what is now 30 rue des Saints-Pères. After being forced to give up the Saint-Germain Cemetery in 1604, the Protestants of Paris bought a rectangular garden on the moulin du Pré-aux-Clercs mound on rue des Saints-Pères from Joachim Meurier, a master goldsmith from

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. It was roughly 13

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(24 m) by 23 toise (42 m). The first burials were on 21 March 1604 and the cemetery was used up until the

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in 1685, after which it was renamed Charité Cemetery (''cimetière de la Charité'') and used by the

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. It was enclosed by a 3m high wall and received at least one body a day. Like all the inner-city cemeteries, it was closed in 1785 by order of the inspector general of quarries Charles-Axel Guillaumot - the contents of its tombs and charnel houses and its burials at a depth of at least 100m were transferred to the new

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, a set of re-used quarries on what is now Rue de la Tombe-Issoire.

Selected burials

* Members of the Caus, Conrart, Duberceau, La Planche, Gobelins and Rambouillet families *

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(† 1614) * Barthélemy de Brosse (architecte) * Jacob Bunel († 1614) *

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(† 1648) *

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(† 1675) * Barthélemy Prieur († 1611) * Marthe Renaudot († 1639), wife of

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References

Bibliography (in French)

Les cimetières protestants

* ttps://books.google.com/books?id=VdtGGZ_ihoUC&dq=cimeti%C3%A8re+de+la+trinit%C3%A9+paris&pg=PA94 L'Oratoire du Louvre et les protestants parisiens par Philippe Braunstein
Les morts, l'Église et l'État Par Jacqueline Thibaut-Payen
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External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saints-Peres Cemeteries in Paris 7th arrondissement of Paris History of Protestantism in France Protestant Reformed cemeteries Former cemeteries