Montmartre Cemetery

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Montmartre Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18^th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as they presented health hazards. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19^th century: Montmartre in the north, Père-Lachaise Cemetery in the east, Passy Cemetery in the west and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.

Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt. The cemetery epitomizes the artsy, quixotic, gentle, almost whimsical Paris that every romantic visitor secretly cherishes.

A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area. A few of the famous buried in the Montmartre Cemetery are:

Tombstone of Vaslav Nijinsky in Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. The statue shows Nijinsky as the puppet Petrouchka.

Tomb of Stendhal

Tomb of Dalida

Tomb of Jacques Offenbach

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

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Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), composer
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer
André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836), physicist (electrical unit ampere named for him)
Édouard François André (1840-1911), landscape architect

[edit] B

Michel Berger (1947-1992), composer, singer
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), composer
Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), composer
Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979), composer
Marcel Boussac (1889-1980), entrepreneur
Victor Brauner (1903-1966), painter
Václav Brožík (1851-1901), Czech painter
Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852-1941), painter

[edit] C

Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935), banker
Nissim de Camondo (1892-1917), banker, WW I pilot
Antoine Carême (1784-1883), famed inventor of classical cuisine
Fanny Cerrito (1817-1909), Italian ballerina
Jacques Charon (1920-1975), actor
Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856), painter
Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977) director and screenwriter
Véra Clouzot (1913-1960}, actress

[edit] D

Dalida (1933-1987), Egyptian-born singer/actress
Edgar Degas (1834-1917), famous painter, sculptor
Léo Delibes (1836-1891), composer of Romantic music
Maria Deraismes (1828-1894), social reformer, feminist
Narcisse Virgilio Diaz (1808-1876), painter
Maxime Du Camp (1822-1894), author
Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895), novelist, playwright
Marie Duplessis (1824-1847), French courtesan

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[edit] F

Jean Marie Joseph Farina (1785-1864), manufacturer of Eau-de-Cologne.
Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), playwright of La Belle Époque
Jean Foucault (1819-1868), scientist
Charles Fourier (1772-1837), utopian socialist.
Carole Fredericks (1952-2001), African-American singer

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Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821-1910), opera singer, composer
Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), poet, novelist
Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904), painter
Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author/publisher (patron of the Prix Goncourt)
Jules de Goncourt (1830-1870), author/publisher
Amédée Gordini (1899-1979), Gordini sports car manufacturer
La Goulue (Louise Weber) (1866-1929), Can-can dancer
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), artist
Lucien Guitry (1860-1925), actor
Sacha Guitry (1885-1957), actor/director