Northern Cemetery of Rennes on ASCE website
The Northern cemetery, designed as an English-style garden, with sinuous drives and varied vegetation, is an incentive for walks and peace. Built in the aftermath of the French revolution, this place enables to discover the History of Rennes to the end of the 18th century, with its publics figures who are buried here. Indeed, many politicians, scientists, architectes, painters, scholars, writers... lie in this emblematic place of Rennes.
The funeral symbolism, now forgotten in modern graves, is conserved here. So we can see truncated columns, stars, religious symbols, palm, winged hourglasses, owls... that give some information about the decedent's life.
The quality and the diversity of the graves and funeral chapels are a significant part of the Northern Cemetery of Rennes. One can find some neo-classical, neo-gothic, Art Deco styles, evolving during 19th and 20th centuries in France and across Europe.