thumb|x250px|Central pathway, Plainpalais cemetery

The Cimetière des Rois (French: Cemetery of Kings) (officially Cimetière de Plainpalais) is a cemetery in Geneva, Switzerland. The cemetery is commonly named after la rue des Rois (French: Kings' Street) near which it is situated. The graveyard was established in 1482 for people who died from plague in the Middle Ages, during the second plague pandemic. can claim a concession whose request must be made to the Administrative Council.

In the cemetery are buried John Calvin (the Protestant reformer), Jorge Luis Borges (the Argentine author), Sérgio Vieira de Mello (the former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights), Ernest Ansermet (renowned Swiss conductor), and Jean Piaget (the noted developmental psychologist and epistemologist). The composers Frank Martin, Alberto Ginastera, Denis de Rougemont, Griselidis Real and Alice Rivaz, Jeanne de Salzmann, chemist Humphry Davy, editor François Lachenal, Robert Musil and actor François Simon are also buried there. Politicians are also buried there, such as Adrien Lachenal (President of the Confederation), Paul Lachenal, Antoine Carteret, Willy Donzé, and Gustave Moynier (President of the Red Cross). Max van Berchem (founder of Arabic epigraphy), and Eglantyne Jebb (founder of Save the Children, drafter of Declaration of the Rights of the Child)

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File:Cementerio de los Reyes 08.jpg|Traditional grave of Calvin; the exact location of the grave in the cemetery is unknown

File:Tumba de Jorge Luis Borges en el Cementerio de los Reyes 03.jpg|The grave of Jorge Luis Borges

File:Cimetière des Rois, allée centrale, Genève.jpg|Central pathway, Plainpalais cemetery

File:Tomb of Adrien Lachenal, Kings Cemetery, Geneva.jpg|The grave of Swiss President Adrien Lachenal

File:Davygrave.jpg|The grave of notable British scientist Sir Humphry Davy

File:Plan du cimetière des Rois, Genève.jpg|Map of the Kings Cemetery, Geneva

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See also

  • Plainpalais

References

  • Official website