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Loyasse Cemetery Cimetière de Loyasse
View of the cemetery

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Coordinates	45°45′44″N 4°48′43″E / 45.76222°N 4.81194°E / 45.76222; 4.81194

Loyasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Loyasse) is a cemetery in the city of Lyon, France. The cemetery is located on the Fourvière hill in the western part of the city, not far away from the Metallic tower of Fourvière and Notre-Dame de Fourvière.

It is the 'richer' cemetery of Lyon, when compared with the Cimetière de La Guillotière, with elaborate graves in various architectural styles.

Notable interments

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Pierre Bossan, architect of the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière
Sante Geronimo Caserio, Italian anarchist and assassin
Ferdinand Ferber (1862–1909), French aviator.
Émile Guimet (1836–1918), founder of the Guimet Museum
Édouard Herriot (1872–1957), French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister
Létiévant (1830–1884), French surgeon remembered for drawing the first aesthesiography.
Nizier Anthelme Philippe (1849–1905)
Jean-Pierre Pléney
Jean-Baptiste Willermoz

Sources

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Pelletier, Jean, nd: Connaître son arrondissement: le 5e, pp. 58–50. Éditions lyonnaise d'art et d'histoire

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Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs (Philippe Landru): Lyon (69): cimetière de Loyasse (in French)
Lyon municipal website: Cimetière de Loyasse ancien (in French)
Lyon municipal website: Cimetière de Loyasse nouveau (in French)

v t e 5th arrondissement of Lyon
Quarters	Champvert Fourvière Le Point du Jour Ménival Saint-Georges Saint-Irénée Saint-Jean Saint-Just Saint-Paul Vieux Lyon
Streets	Montée du Gourguillon Rue de Gadagne Rue du Bœuf Rue Lainerie
Squares	Place Benoît-Crépu Place de la Trinité Place Saint-Jean
Churches	Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière Église Saint-Georges Église Saint-Paul Cathédrale Saint Jean-Baptiste Temple du Change
Others monuments or structures	Ancient Theatre of Fourvière Loyasse Cemetery Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon Maison du Chamarier Manécanterie Metallic tower of Fourvière Musée Gadagne Odeon of Lyon Palais de justice historique de Lyon Taurobolic Altar
Transports	Funiculars of Lyon Gare de Lyon-Saint-Paul Lyon Metro Line D Tram-train de l'ouest lyonnais Velo'v

v t e Cemeteries in France
Parisian region	Bagneux Batignolles Catacombs Errancis Gonards Grenelle Holy Innocents Les Invalides Levallois-Perret Madeleine Montmartre Montparnasse Montrouge Neuilly-sur-Seine Panthéon Pantin Passy Père Lachaise Picpus Saint-Denis Saint-Germain Saint-Ouen Saint-Vincent Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Sainte-Marguerite Saints-Pères Thiais
Other places	Cannes (Grand Jas) Grenoble (Saint Roch) Lyon (La Guillotière) Lyon (Loyasse) Marseille (Saint-Pierre) Reims (Saint-Remi) Protestant Cemetery, Bordeaux Protestant Cemetery, Montpellier Jewish cemetery, Besançon Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice
War cemeteries	Aisne-Marne American Cemetery and Memorial Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial Lafayette Escadrille Cemetery and Memorial Lorraine American Cemetery and Memorial Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial Oise-Aisne American Cemetery and Memorial Orglandes German war cemetery Orry-la-Ville Dutch War Cemetery Rhone American Cemetery and Memorial Somme American Cemetery and Memorial St. Mihiel American Cemetery and Memorial Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States

Notable interments

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