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Horse carriage gate that opens onto Picpus Cemetery. This is the gate where carts piled with decapitated bodies would enter the cemetery at night to deposit the corpses into the two mass graves dug on the site.
This file appears in: La Cimitière de Picpus: Lafayette, he is here!
La Cimitière de Picpus: Lafayette, he is here!
A hero of the American Revolution, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, lies buried in Picpus Cemetery under American soil brought back from Bunker Hill. His presence in this private…