Picpus: history and sights
Served by: metro line 6.
Did you know?
Serves the Picpus cemetery, the largest private cemetery in Paris, where more than 1,300 victims of the Terror were buried in mass graves in 1794, and where the Marquis de La Fayette also rests nearby.
Anecdote
General La Fayette, hero of the American War of Independence, rests at Picpus cemetery beneath soil brought from the United States.
Around Picpus
- Cimetière de Picpus, 220 m away — A private cemetery containing the mass grave of Terror victims and the tomb of Lafayette.
- Bois de Vincennes, 1300 m away — Paris's largest green space, with a lake, zoo and racecourse, reachable from this station.
- Place de la Nation, 700 m away — A vast square adorned with the Triumph of the Republic statue, one of the largest in Paris.