Where is Allan Kardec Buried?

Allan Kardec is known today for arranging spiritism into a system based on scientific knowledge.  His work established the two fundamental beliefs of spiritism - the existence of spirits (or non-physical beings) that reside in the invisible space around us (the spirit world), and the possibility of communication between those spirits and humans though mediumship.

He was born Hippolyte Leon Denizard Rivail, but he took the name "Allan Kardec" after having a past life reading where a spirit told him of his previous incarnation as a Druid priest by that name.  The name became a way to keep his spiritist writings separate from his other occupations (writing basic books for high school students, organizing and presenting free courses for the underprivileged, and working as a translator). 

His tomb is located in the 110 acre Pere Lachaise Cimetiere (Cemetery):

Kardec had a Bachelor of Arts degree in Science and a Doctorate in Medicine.  In addition to his native French, he was also fluent in German, English, Italian and Spanish.

Kardec's tomb is one of the most flowered in the cemetery.  A bust of his head is centered on a pedestal, with a huge slab of stone behind it, and two stone pillars in front.  Carved into the stone roof is the phrase, Naitre, mourir, renaitre encore et progresser sans cesse, telle, est la loi" ("To be born, die, again be reborn, and so progress unceasingly, such is the law").  There are flags and notes all around the grave site, especially from Brazil, where his doctrine has over a half million followers.

Kardec's wife (Amélie-Gabrielle Boudet) is buried with him.  She was a French teacher, an author and a poet.  She was the only daughter of the notary Julien-Louis Boudet and his wife, Julie-Louise, and she preferred to by called her nickname - Gaby.  As a professor of Letters and Fine Arts, she was the author of the following works: "Spring Tales" (1825), "Noções de Desenho" (1826) and "The Essential in Fine Arts" (1828).

She and Kardec married on February 9, 1832.  She collaborated continuously on the studies of her husband, primarily on the Codification books of Spiritism.  After Kardec died in 1869, she assumed all of the responsibilities for the management of Spiritism in France and in the rest of the world.