The cemetery of North , open in 1787, is oldest of the town of Rheims.

The vault Holy-Cross, which accepted the body of the Chevalier of Rougeville, known under the name of Chevalier of House-Red, by the novel of Alexandre Dumas, is classified Historic building.

Built at the end of the XVIIIe century and inaugurated in 1787, i1 contains the remainders of the majority of the citizens who since illustrated the city. Funerary architecture having, as of antiquity, summer the object of care particular to Rheims, a certain number of monuments, works of the architects rémois: vaults, sarcophagi, cippes and steles, are remarkable there by their design and their execution, out of stone, marble and granite. Among them, it is especially necessary to distinguish fall it from the Abbé Miroy, illustrated by a beautiful statue laid down out of bronze, work of Rene de Saint-Marceaux. The abbot Miroy, priest of Cuchery, shown excitations with armed resistance, was shot by the Prussians on February 12th, 1871, after the armistice. Its monument was raised by subscription; it is represented falling struck by the enemy balls and returning the last sigh like a Juste. The sculptor seized the drama without resorting to any exaggeration; this work, though its beginning, showed already great qualities that this artist did not cease developing since: rise in the smoothness of observation, distinction of the taste, richness of coloring to animate the matter.

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