Brewer's: Pere la Chaise

the Parisian cemetery, is the site of a great monastery founded by Louis XIV., of which his confessor, Père la Chaise, was made the superior. After the Revolution, the grounds were laid out for a public cemetery; first used in May, 1804.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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