Saint-Vincent Cemetery
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Saint-Vincent Cemetery (Fr:Cimetière Saint-Vincent) at 6, rue Lucien-Gaulard in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was opened on January 5, 1831. It was Montmartre's second cemetery, built after the Cimetière du Calvaire had been filled.
A small cemetery with just over 900 graves, a few of its best known residents are:
- Marcel Aymé (1902-1967), writer
- Harry Baur (1880-1943), actor
- Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) painter
- Marcel Carné (1906-1996), film director
- Jules Chéret (1836-1932), master poster designer
- Roland Dorgeles (1885-1973), writer
- Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), composer
- Désiré Inghelbrecht (1880-1965), composer and orchestra leader
- Gen Paul (1895-1975), painter
- Paul Sédir (Yvon Le Loup), (1871-1926), writer, philosopher
- Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923) painter
- Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), painter
