<P> The cemetery is on Boulevard de Ménilmontant . The Paris Métro station Philippe Auguste on line 2 is next to the main entrance, while the station named Père Lachaise, on both lines 2 and 3, is 500 metres away near a side entrance that has been closed to the public . Many tourists prefer the Gambetta station on line 3, as it allows them to enter near the tomb of Oscar Wilde and then walk downhill to visit the rest of the cemetery . </P> <P> Each year, Père Lachaise Cemetery has more than 3.5 million visitors, making it the most visited cemetery in the world . </P> <P> The cemetery takes its name from the confessor to Louis XIV, Père François de la Chaise (1624--1709), who lived in the Jesuit house rebuilt during 1682 on the site of the chapel . The property, situated on the hillside from which the king watched skirmishing between the armies of the Condé and Turenne during the Fronde, was bought by the city during 1804 . Established by Napoleon during this year, the cemetery was laid out by Alexandre - Théodore Brongniart and later extended . </P> <P> As the city graveyards of Paris filled, several new, large cemeteries, outside the precincts of the capital, replaced them: Montmartre Cemetery in the north, Père Lachaise in the east, and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south . Near the middle of the city is Passy Cemetery . </P>

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