Cimetière du Père-Lachaise : vos démarches administratives

Accès et horaires de la conservation

Les services administratifs du cimetière se situent dans les bureaux de la Conservation, située à la porte de la rue du Repos (16 rue du Repos - 75020 Paris) et à 150 mètres de la porte principale, boulevard de Ménilmontant (M° Philippe Auguste).

Contacts :
01 55 25 82 10.
Pour les particuliers : [cimetiere.perelachaise puis paris.fr après le signe @]cimetiere.perelachaise@paris.fr[cimetiere.perelachaise puis paris.fr après le signe @].
Compte tenu du très grand nombre de sollicitations qui nous sont adressées et de la forte affluence dans nos bureaux, nous vous recommandons de nous adresser vos demandes par courrier postal ou par mail.
Pour les professionnels du funéraire : [cimetiere.perelachaise.pro puis paris.fr après le signe @]cimetiere.perelachaise.pro@paris.fr[cimetiere.perelachaise.pro puis paris.fr après le signe @].
Il ne sera donné aucune suite aux messages de professionnels nous parvenant sur la boîte mail destinée aux particuliers.

S'informer sur les horaires du bureau des Concessions

Le bureau des concessions du Service des Cimetières est en charge des reconnaissances de droits et des autorisations d’exhumation pour l’ensemble des cimetières parisiens. Ce service est localisé dans l’enceinte du cimetière du Père-Lachaise, mais est distinct de l’administration du cimetière proprement dit.

Accès le plus proche : 71, rue des Rondeaux, cimetière du Père-Lachaise (accès par l’entrée Gambetta, prendre ensuite la première allée à droite). Les agents d’accueil et de surveillance en poste aux portes du cimetière, auxquels vous veillerez à bien demander le Bureau des Concessions, vous en indiqueront le chemin.

Contact :
01 40 33 85 89
deve-bureaudesconcessions@paris.fr[deve-bureaudesconcessions puis paris.fr après le signe @]

The mission of the administration of the Père Lachaise is the management of the cemetery and the funerary concessions therein. As a result, the documents we keep are not archives, but contracts, essentially valid, and we only respond to family requests. It is not an archive service, nor a registry office or a genealogical research service.

Information related to a funerary concession can only be issued to recognized rights-holders, heirs of the original contract-holder who have made the necessary steps to recognize their rights to the funerary concession, and, even to them, no information related to privacy can be communicated. To people who are not rights-holders, we can only communicate the location of the burial place of a deceased person.

We can only provides information on the location of a burial place for a person who is certain to be buried in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery and of which the applicant can indicate precisely the name, first name and date of death or burial (at least the year). Without those informations, we cannot do any research. The fact that a person died in Paris, or was resident in Paris at the time of its death, or was cremated at the Crematorium of Père Lachaise does not imply that this person was buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery. The burial could have taken place in one of the 20 cemeteries of Paris, or in another city. In the case of a cremation, the funerary urn could also be given to the family for a dispersion of ashes or, as it was possible until 2008, be kept at home.

We therefore invite you, before making any request to the cemetery's administrative services, to search in your personal archives or on the Internet for information indicating that the person whose grave you are looking for is buried in Père-Lachaise, and then, if necessary, to contact us to locate it. You can consult the archives of the City of Paris at the address http://archives.paris.fr, which proposes on line numerous documents, including The burial registers of 19 of the 20 cemeteries of Paris (no register for the cemetery of Calvaire) from 1804 to 1969. Documents after 1968, documents related to the concessions (registers and files), and records of burial and exhumation, are kept by the central service of the cemeteries of the City of Paris which responds only to family requests.

In case you are looking for a deceased whose identity and date of death is known, but whose place of burial in Paris is not, your request should be addressed to the Service des Cimetières (71 rue des Rondeaux - 75020 Paris) by attaching to it the precise identity of the deceased, the exact date (at least month and year) of death or burial and civil status documents attesting your relationship with the deceased (birth certificate, death certificate, family record book, …). If the documents submitted prove that you are heir to the grave, your file will be sent to the Bureau des Concessions to recognize your rights in this grave.

We also recommend, to search for the grave of a relative on whom you wish to meditate, to prepare your visit by sending your request by postal mail, or by e-mail to the address [cimetiere.perelachaise puis paris.fr après le signe @]cimetiere.perelachaise@paris.fr[cimetiere.perelachaise puis paris.fr après le signe @], specifying the surname, first name(s) and date of death or burial of the deceased. This will allow you to avoid a long wait in the administration office, or even not to get an answer due to lack of sufficient elements for us to search, or because of the closure of office at the time of your visit. The conservation office is open Monday to Friday from 8:30 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 17:00