[1][2] It formerly was a large and prestigious French colonial cemetery in South Vietnam, located near the US Embassy, Saigon (now is Consulate General of the United States, Ho Chi Minh City).

The cemetery had a wooded, bucolic setting, surrounded by a tall concrete wall, with a gated entrance on Hai Ba Trung Street.

[3] The cemetery was built by the French and had a European style confined within a quiet environment, giving it an air of simplicity, eeriness, and majesty.

[4] The famous French correspondent for Time and Newsweek magazines François Sully[4] and the American missionary Grace Cadman[5] were also buried there.

In 1983 the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee passed a resolution to abolish the cemetery, and ordered all remains to be exhumed and removed.