Montparnasse Cemetery

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Zoom on Montparnasse cemetery as seen from top of Montparnasse tower (Paris, France).

The Montparnasse cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Montparnasse) is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14 ^ème arrondissement.

Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786 due to health concerns. Several new cemeteries outside of the precincts of the capital replaced all the internal Parisian ones in the early 19^th century, Montmartre Cemetery in the north, Père-Lachaise Cemetery in the east and the Montparnasse Cemetery in the south. At the heart of the city, and today, sitting in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, is Passy Cemetery.

Montparnasse Cemetery is the eternal home of many of France's intellectual and artistic elite as well as publishers and others who promoted the works of authors and artists. There are also monuments to police and firefighters killed in the line of duty in the city of Paris.

Because of the many notable people buried there, it is a highly popular tourist attraction.

[edit] Interments

Among those interred here are:

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

[edit] A

Alexandre Alekhine (1892-1946), Russian-born chess world champion
Jean-Michel Atlan (1913-1960), poet and painter
Michele Arnaud (1919-1998), singer.
Raymond Aron (1905-1983), philosopher, sociologist and political scientist.
Tina Aumont (1946-2006), actress, daughter of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez
Georges Auric (1899-1983), composer, member of Les Six

[edit] B

Théodore de Banville (1823-1891), poet, writer
Frédéric Bartholdi (1834-1904), sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
Maryse Bastié (1898-1952), pioneer aviatrix
Jane Bathori (1877-1970), opera singer
Shapour Bakhtiar (1914-1991), last prime minister of the constitutional monarchy in Iran
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), famous poet
Jean Baudrillard (July 29, 1929 – March 6, 2007), French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), feminist philosopher & author
Jacques Becker (1906-1960), filmmaker
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish author, playwright & poet
Jean Béraud (1849-1935), painter
Emmanuel Berl (1892-1976), writer
Louis Gustave Binger (1856-1936), explorer
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), artist (painter in realist style)
Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1921), sculptor & teacher
Gérard Brach (1927-2006), screenwriter
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Romanian sculptor
Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899-1984), photographer

[edit] C

Roger Caillois (1913-1978), author
Jean Carmet (1920-1994), actor
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811–1899), organ builder
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), composer
Honoré Champion (1846-1913), librarian and editor
Emil Cioran (1911-1995), Romanian philosopher
André Citroën (1878-1935), founded France's Citroën automobile factory
Antoni Clavé (1913-2005), artist
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792-1843), mathematician
Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentinian author
Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801-1877), economist

[edit] D

Jules Dalou (1838-1902), sculptor
Pierre David-Weill (1900-1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
Jacques Demy (1931-1990), film director
Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Surrealist poet
Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), longest serving Mexican President
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the Dreyfus affair)
Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), author & movie director
Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), sociologist

[edit] E

Robert Enrico (1931-2001), film director
Antoine Étex (1808-1888), sculptor

[edit] F

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), artist
Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947), poet and essayist
Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936), publisher
César Franck (1822-1890), composer & organist
Othon Friesz (1879-1949), painter

[edit] G

Charles Garnier (1825-1898), designed the original Paris Opera House for Napoleon III
Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), poet and singer
Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859-1931), writer and first husband of Colette
François Gérard (1770-1837), artist
Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), organist and composer

[edit] H

Mireille Hartuch (1906-1996), singer, composer, and actress
Clara Haskil (1895-1960), pianist
Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), famous sculptor of notable men
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), author

[edit] I

Roger Ibáñez (1931-2005), actor
Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931), composer
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), Romanian playwright
Jean Robert Ipousteguy (1920-2006), sculptor, painter

[edit] J

Joëlle (1953-1982), American-born French singer
Gustave Jundt (1830-1884), painter

[edit] K

Joseph Kessel (1898-1979), writer
Kiki (1901-1953), singer, actress, painter, "Queen of Montparnasse"

[edit] L

Bernard Lacoste (1931-2006), apparel
Henri Langlois (1914-1977), film preservationist
Pierre Larousse (1817-1875), author of encyclopedia of Larousse Gastronomique
Henri Laurens (1885-1954), sculptor, engraver
Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), physician, parasitologist
Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941), biographer of Arsene Lupin, novelist
Jean Henri Lefortier (1819-1886), painter
Philippe Léotard (1940-2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer
Jacques Lisfranc (1790-1847), gynecologist and surgeon
Émile Littré (1801-1881) lexicographer, philosopher
Baltasar Lobo (1910-1993), Spanish sculptor
Sylvia Lopez (1931-1959), actress
Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), poet, romance novelist

[edit] M

Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), Egyptologist
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), author
Catulle Mendès (1841-1909), poet, man of letters
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868), actress, poet
André Meyer (1898-1979), French/American financier
Mireille (1906-1996), singer, composer
Maria Montez (1912-1951), actress

[edit] N

Max Nordau (1849-1923), Zionist leader, physician, author,
Philippe Noiret (1930-2006), actor

[edit] O

Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853), toxicologist, chemist
Gerard Oury (1919-2006), director

Viktor Yushchenko near grave of Symon Petlura.

[edit] P

Adolphe Pegoud (1889-1915) aviator
Simon Petlyura (1879-1926), Ukrainian leader
Maurice Pialat (1925-2003), film director
Jules Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912), mathematician and physicist
Jean Poiret (1926-1992), actor, film director
François Charles Henri Laurent Pouqueville (1770-1838), Diplomat, writer, historian, archaeologist, physician
Visarion Puiu (1879 - 1964), Romanian metropolitan bishop

[edit] Q

Grave of Edgar Quinet

Edgar Quinet (1803-1875), historian

[edit] R

Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000), flautist
Man Ray (1890-1976), American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer
Serge Reggiani (1922-2004), singer, actor
Jean-Marc Reiser (1941-1983), comic artist
Yves Robert (1920-2002), actor, director
Yves Rocard (1903-1992), physicist
Frédéric Rossif (1922-1990), filmmaker
François Rude (1784-1855), sculptor
Julio Ruelas (1870-1907), Mexican painter

[edit] S

Jean Sablon (1906-1994), singer
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), literary critic, author

Graves of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
Jules Sandeau (1811-1883), novelist
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French philosopher & novelist
Claude Sautet (1924-2000), film director
Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress & civil rights activist
Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990), actress
Susan Sontag (1933-2004), American author & philosopher
Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005), sculptor, painter
Chaim Soutine (1893 – August 9, 1943), painter of the School of Paris