Cemetery in Paris, France
A view of Montmartre Cemetery TheCemetery of Montmartre (French:Cimetière de Montmartre ) is a cemetery in the18th arrondissement of Paris ,France , that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as theCimetière du Nord , it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after thePère Lachaise Cemetery and theMontparnasse Cemetery .
In the mid-18th century, overcrowding in the cemeteries of Paris had created numerous problems, from impossibly high funeral costs to unsanitary living conditions in the surrounding neighborhoods. In the 1780s, theCimetière des Innocents was officially closed and citizens were banned from burying corpses within the city limits of Paris. During the early 19th century, new cemeteries were constructed outside the precincts of the capital: Montmartre in the north,Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east,Passy Cemetery in the west andMontparnasse Cemetery in the south.
The Montmartre Cemetery was opened on 1 January 1825. It was initially known as leCimetière des Grandes Carrières (Cemetery of the Large Quarries).[ 1] French Revolution as a mass grave. It was built below street level, in the hollow of an abandoned gypsum quarry located west of theButte near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt inPlace de Clichy .[ 2]
A popular tourist destination, Montmartre Cemetery is the final resting place of many famous artists who lived and worked in theMontmartre area.
Henri-Georges Clouzot 's graveTomb ofEdgar Degas The tomb ofAlexandre Dumas,fils Renée Jeanne Falconetti Grave ofJean Léon Gérôme ,Aimé Morot and family (Cimetière de Montmartre, 18th division) Heinrich Heine Daniel Iffla Statue on the tomb of Miecislas Kamieński Margaret Kelly Leibovici Tombstone ofVaslav Nijinsky in Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. The statue shows Nijinsky as the puppetPetrouchka . Tomb ofJacques Offenbach . Tomb ofStendhal François Truffaut Adolphe Adam (1803–1856), composerYvette Alde (1911–1967), painterCharles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), composerAndré-Marie Ampère (1775–1836), physicist (namesake of electrical unitampere )Édouard André (1840–1911), landscape architectChloé Ansel (2006–2015), murder victimJuan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806–1826), composerAlfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941), painterBenjamin Ball (physician) (1833–1893), psychiatristJean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (1680–1767), explorer, governor, founder ofNew Orleans Michel Berger (1947–1992), composer, singerHector Berlioz (1803–1869), composer (originally buried in a less prominent plot in the same cemetery)Léon Boëllmann (1862–1897), composer and organistAlexandre Boëly (1785–1858), composer and organistMélanie "Mel" Bonis (1858–1937), composerFrançois Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé (1739–1800), royalist general named in the French National Anthem,La Marseillaise Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), composerNadia Boulanger (1887–1979), composerGeorges Hilaire Bousquet (1846–1937), jurist, legal scholarMarcel Boussac (1889–1980), entrepreneurGiuseppina Bozzacchi , (1853–1870), ballerinaVictor Brauner (1903–1966), painterVáclav Brožík (1851–1901),Czech painterAlfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941), painterMyles Byrne (1780–1862), Irish revolutionary soldierMoïse de Camondo (1860–1935), bankerNissim de Camondo (1892–1917), banker, World War I pilotAimée Campton (1882–1930), actressPierre Cardin (1922–2020), Fashion DesignerMarie-Antoine Carême (1784–1833), famed inventor of classical cuisineLouis-Eugène Cavaignac (1802–1857), politicianFanny Cerrito (1817–1909), Italian ballerinaJean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), neurologistJacques Charon (1920–1975), actorThéodore Chassériau (1819–1856), painterHenri-Georges Clouzot (1907–1977), director and screenwriterVéra Clouzot (1913–1960), actressHenri-Bernard Dabadie (1797–1853), operatic baritone[ 3] Zulmé Dabadie (1795–1877), operatic soprano[ 3] Dalida (1933–1987), Egyptian-born Italo-French singer and actressLouis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna (1811–1871), Austrian writer and diplomatEdgar Degas (1834–1917), Impressionist painter, sculptorLéo Delibes (1836–1891), composer ofRomantic music Maria Deraismes (1828–1894), social reformer, feministNarcisse Virgilio Díaz (1808–1876), painterWilliam Didier-Pouget (1864–1959), artist painterMaxime Du Camp (1822–1894), authorNorbert Dufourcq (1904–1990), organist, musicologist, writerAlexandre Dumas,fils (1824–1895), novelist, playwrightMarie Duplessis (1824–1847), courtesan,The Lady of the Camellias François Duprat (1941–1978), assassinated political radicalRenée Jeanne Falconetti (1892–1946), actress, notable forLa Passion de Jeanne d'Arc Georges Feydeau (1862–1921), playwright ofLa Belle Époque Léon Foucault (1819–1868), scientistCharles Fourier (1772–1837), utopian socialistChristopher Fratin (1801–1864),animalier sculptorCarole Fredericks (1952–2001),African-American singerFrance Gall (1947–2018), singerTheophile Gautier (1811–1872), poet, novelistJean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), painterEugène Gigout (1844–1925), composer and organistJosé Melchor Gomis (1791–1836), Spanish Romantic composerEdmond de Goncourt (1822–1896), author/publisher, brother of Jules (patron of thePrix Goncourt Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), author/publisher, brother of Edmond and buried in the same grave. Also patron of thePrix Goncourt Amédée Gordini (1899–1979),Gordini sports car manufacturerLa Goulue (Louise Weber) (1866–1929),Can-can dancer (she was originally buried in theCimetière de Pantin )Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), artistBéla Grünwald (1839–1891), Hungarian historian and politicianJules Guérin (1860–1910), nationalist political radicalLucien Guitry (1860–1925), actorSacha Guitry (1885–1957), actor/directorCharles Gumery (1827–1871), sculptorFromental Halévy (1799–1862), composerHeinrich Heine (1797–1856), German poetFanny Heldy (1888–1973), Belgian sopranoJacques Ignace Hittorff (1792–1867), architectFrançois-André Isambert (1792–1857), lawyer, historian, and politicianDaniel Iffla (1825–1907), Jewish philanthropist and financierMaurice Jaubert (1900–1940), composer, conductorAndré Jolivet (1905–1974), composerMarcel Jouhandeau (1888–1979), authorLouis Jouvet (1887–1951), actorAnna Judic (1850–1911), actress, chanteuseAntoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), general, military authorFriedrich Kalkbrenner (1784–1849), pianist, composerMiecislas Kamieński, aPolish soldier who was a volunteer in the French Army and was killed in theBattle of Magenta , mentioned because the statue byJules Franceschi [ 4] Julian Klemczyński , (1807 or 1810–1851?), pianist, composerMarie-Pierre Kœnig (1898–1970),Free French Field MarshalBernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), playwright, directorJoseph Kosma (1905–1969), composerSlavko Kopač (1913–1995), Croatian-French painter, sculptor and poetEugène Labiche (1815–1888), dramatistDominique Laffin (1952–1985), actressCharles Lamoureux (1834–1899), violinistJean Lannes (1769–1809), Marshal of France (heart-burial only, the body is in the Pantheon)Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), painterMargaret Kelly Leibovici (1910–2004), "Miss Bluebell", Irish dancerFrédérick Lemaître (1800–1876), actorPauline Leroux (1809–1891), dancerÉlisabeth Leseur (1866–1914), mysticJosé Yves Limantour (1854–1935)Mexican Secretary of Finance Emma Livry (1842–1863), ballet dancerÉdouard Lucas (1842–1891), mathematicianAimé Maillart (1817–1871), composerHenri Meilhac (1830–1897), dramatistMary Marquet (1895–1979), actressVictor Massé (1822–1884), composerAuguste de Montferrand (1786–1858), architectJosé María Luis Mora (1794–1850), Mexican politicianGustave Moreau (1826–1898),symbolist painter Jeanne Moreau (1928–2017), actressAimé Morot (1850–1913), academic art painterHenri Murger (1822–1861), novelistMusidora (1889–1957), (Jeanne Roques) actress/director/writerVaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), ballet dancerSuzanne Noël (1878–1954), first female plastic surgeon in the world.Adolphe Nourrit (1802–1839), tenorEugène Nyon (1812–1870), playwright and novelistAlphonse de Neuville (1836–1885), painter whose funerary monument was realized byFrancis de Saint-Vidal Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), French composer of German descentGeorges Ohnet (1848–1919), writerHarriet Osborne O'Hagan (1830–1921), Irish portrait artistThéophile-Jules Pelouze (1807–1867), chemistIsaac Péreire (1806–1880), financierJacob Rodrigues Péreire (1715–1780), educatorFrancis Picabia (1879–1953), painterAlphonsine Plessis (1824–1847),La Dame aux Camélias Patrick Pons (1952–1980), motorcycle racerPierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829–1871), novelistWilliam Didier-Pouget (1864-1959), painterJean Le Poulain (1924–1988), actorFrancisque Poulbot (1879–1946), painter, illustratorOlga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), ballet dancer[ 5] Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery )[ 6] Juliette Récamier (1777–1849), socialite and woman of lettersSuzanne Reichenberg (1853–1924), actressSalomon Reinach (1858–1932), archaeologistErnest Renan (1823–1892), writer (buried in theAry Scheffer grave)Jacques Rigaut (1898–1929), poetJacques Rivette (1928–2016), film director and film criticHenri Rivière (1827–1883), naval officer, writerJean Rédélé (1922–2007), automotive pioneer, pilot and founder of the French automotive brandAlpine .Julie Rodde (1818–1900), French writer, poet and journalist.Hilda Roosevelt (1881–1965), opera singer, daughter of Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902)Endre Rozsda (1913–1999), surrealist painterJoseph Isidore Samson (1793–1871), actor and playwrightHenri Sauguet (1901–1989), composerAdolphe Sax (1814–1894), musical instrument artisan (inventor of saxophone)Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), painterCornélia Scheffer (1830–1899), sculptor and designerHelen G. Scott (1915–1987), Truffaut / HitchcockPhilippe Paul de Ségur, Count of Ségur (1780–1873), historianClaude Simon (1913–2005), novelistJuliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish romantic poetHarriet Smithson (1808–1854), Anglo-Irish actress, the first wife of Hector Berlioz, and the inspiration for his Symphonie fantastiqueFernando Sor (1778–1839), guitaristAlexandre Soumet (1788–1845), poetStendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842), writerCharles Henri Sanson (1739–1806), executioner of Louis XVIMarie Taglioni (1804–1884), ballerinaLudmilla Tchérina (1924–2004), dancer, actress and painterAmbroise Thomas (1811–1896), opera composerArmand Toussaint (1806–1862), sculptorJean-Pierre Travot (1767–1836), generalConstant Troyon (1810–1865), painterFrançois Truffaut (1932–1984),French New Wave filmmaker and directorHorace Vernet (1789–1863), painterAuguste Vestris (1760–1842), dancerGaétan Vestris (1729–1808), dancerPauline Viardot (1821–1910), opera singer, composerAlfred de Vigny (1797–1863), poet, playwright, novelistJean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875), luthierRené Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), politicianWalenty Wańkowicz (1799–1842), painterGeorges-Fernand Widal (1862–1929), bacteriologistÉmile Zola (1840–1902), author (original site, moved to thePanthéon in 1908). The Zola family grave is still there, with Émile's name on it.The Montmartre Cemetery with the Rue Caulaincourt viaduct passing through it
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