In a village like Eze where the place is counted, the problem of the burial of dead arose very quickly. Their site had to be close to the church so the families could meditate beside the tombs without leaving the village. Some lords or notable also expressed the desire to be buried directly in the church or, with the payment of one ecu gold, in the vault of Saint Jean Baptist chapel.

Until 1789, it is the solution of the crypt which was retained. One reached it by a staircase located behind the high altar. The deceased simply wrapped of a shroud rested in small rooms arched in the basement of the church whose access was behind the high altar. As soon as a room of this crypt was occupied one deposited the next deceased in the adjacent room and so on until the day when one returned to the first room. This effective system in time of weak mortality, quickly showed his limits when the death were brought closer in the commune.

With the increase of the population at the XVIIe century, the creation of a new cemetery became urgent. Other rooms were thus high in front of the door of the church since 1667. There were useful until 1781 in alternation with these of the church. But because of the important medical risks the Senate prohibits any burial in the church in 1783.

In 1788, Antonio Spinelli, the master of works of the church, our Lady of the Assomption, finished in 1778, proposes an estimate for a new cemetery and the construction is assigned to a mason resident in La Turbie. February 2, the cemetary is blessed by the perpetual vicar and the first burial took place one week later.

The artist Michel Marie Poulain is buried there but our small cemetery is today known for the burial of the actor and humorist Francis Blanche and his famous epitaph : "let me sleep, I was made for that".