Ivry Cemetery

The north enclosure opened in 1861, covering 7.69 hectares, with a western part bought in 1897 to become the separate Kremlin-Bicêtre Cemetery.

Estimates vary from 650 according to the fiercely anti-Commune Maxime Du Camp, 5000 according to Camille Pelletan and 15,000 according to Xavier Raspail.

After the Second World War the Parti communiste français (PCF) acquired an important plot, known as the "carré des fusillés", in the 39th division.

Also in the plot are the grave of ethnologist, linguist, resistance fighter and founder of the groupe du musée de l'Homme Boris Vildé (1908–1942) and wall plaques in memory of Olga Bancic (1912–1944), symbol of foreign female volunteers in the French Resistance, and Pierre Rebière (1909–1942).

From 1885 to 1972 those executed at the prison de la Santé were buried in the "carré des suppliciés" division 27 of the cemetery, totalling 128 burials.