Picpus

Digital archive to expand Picpus, Walled Garden of Memory

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Florence Gould Foundation generously provided the MMLC funding for the creation of a digital archive that will investigate the Picpus Cemetery in Paris and examine the nature of commemorative monuments. When completed, the project will be used by students and researchers worldwide.

The digital archve will incorporate and expand existing research compiled for the making of the award-winning docmentary "Picpus, Walled Garden of Memory." The film is a study of the historical Picpus Cemetery, the site of a mass grave of 1300 victims beheaded during the Reign of Terror in 1794, and the burial site of General LaFayette. It also touches upon the collusion of Vichy France with Nazi Germany; the Rothschild Hospital, which shares a common wall with Picpus, was transformed into a prison hospital for French and European Jews, incarcerated there before their eventual deportation and death.

View the Picpus website