 In Anne Rice's "The Vampire Lestat", Armand's coven of vampires resides in the Cimetière des Innocents when Lestat first encounters them, and they remain there until shortly before the cemetery is finally destroyed.The cemetery and the Catacombs to which the remains were relocated play an important part in Barbary Hambly's novel "Those Who Hunt The Night".In Patrick Süskind's novel "Perfume", the main character Jean-Baptiste Grenouille was born here in 17 July 1738.