Heinrich Heine
1797–1856
Wrote that where books are burned, people will be burned in the end
Montmartre Cemetery, Paris
In memory of
Gustave Eiffel
Engineer of iron
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 91 years
- Resting place
- Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, near Paris, France
Eiffel built railway bridges, the framework inside the Statue of Liberty and, for the 1889 exhibition, a three-hundred-metre tower that three hundred artists and writers publicly denounced as a monstrous black chimney. The permit gave it twenty years.
It was saved because Eiffel put a radio antenna on top and made it useful to the army. He spent his last decades in the laboratory at its summit, studying wind and flight, and is buried under a modest stone a few kilometres away.
This page was written by the site, from public historical records.
Nearby and related
Olympe de Gouges
1748–1793
Wrote that woman has the right to mount the scaffold, and was proved right
Guillotined on the Place de la Révolution, now Place de la Concorde, Paris — no grave
Louis Pasteur
1822–1895
Chemist who proved that germs cause disease
Crypt of the Institut Pasteur, rue du Docteur-Roux, Paris
Berthe Morisot
1841–1895
Impressionist from the first exhibition; her death certificate listed no profession
Cimetière de Passy, Paris