 The current entrance was built in 1934 (designed by René Berger).The retaining wall of the cemetery is adorned with a bas relief (by Louis Janthial) commemorating the soldiers who fell in World War I.Opened in 1820 in the expensive residential and commercial districts of the Right Bank near the "Champs-Élysées", by 1874 the small Passy Cemetery had become the aristocratic necropolis of Paris.