Show tomb of lafayette once execution pit parts Amerl americana caus frequent visits to Lafay ettes tomb have bove brought to light the elie little HUI e known fact that be uca lies in what was once an elocution pit the piehua cemetery was a gravel bed where the bodies of more inore than a thousand of the french nobility exe eie buted during the revolution of I 1 were thrown lafayette was related to some ol of the nobles who were be headed ani an nn i 1 his body therefore was placed flared in this cemetery which aside vm its origin la is perhaps the most unusual in france princesse de mem meal hers bers of whose family were revola flonary victims returned to france after ane country became quiet air obtained a secret authorization trow the file government to establish a beim tery she was enabled to buy th tb sand pit where the 1793 executioner towed tossed the bodies of those be heade oo oil what Is now the PL re ce de la in no lion near by there were wen bodle there of these about 10 were 91 0 certain noble families that co ed to in establishing the cemetery li Is private property controlled still bj b 3 representatives of the lafayette il aai d other families |