Show LAFAYETTE'S TOMB IN OLD DEATH PIT PARIS By By The Associated Press Americans Americans' frequent visits to La La- Lafayette's fayettes fayette's tomb have brought to light the little known kno fact that he lies In in what was once an execution pit The TIle Thep p cemetery was a a. gravel bed where the bodies of ot more than a a. thousand of ot the French nobility exe exe- executed executed executed during the Revolution Re of ot 1793 were thrown Lafayette was as related to some of ot the the- nobles who were beheaded and his body therefore was placed In this cemetery which aside from its origin Is 11 perhaps the most unusual In France The Princesse de members of ot whose family were revo revo- revolutionary revolutionary victims returned to France after the country became quiet and obtained a a. secret authorization from the government to establish a tery ter She was enabled to buy the sand sandpit sandpit sandpit pit where the 1793 executioners tossed the bodies of those beheaded on what is Lv now the Place de la Ia Nation near by There were 1306 bodies there thereOf Of these about were of ot certain noble families that operated co-operated in establishing the cemetery It is private prIvate vate vats property controlled still sUll by rep rep- representatives representatives of ot the Lafayette and other families |