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Cemetery of Montparnasse


Cemetery of Montparnasse
Paris XIVème (France)
3, boulevard Edgar-Quinet 75014
Subway station : Edgar Quinet, Montparnasse-Bienvenüe, Raspail
Phone : 01 44 10 86 50
Montparnasse Cemetery is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city's 14th arrondissement. 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.
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Cemetery of Montparnasse : Description   
Notable people buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery
A
- Henri Alekan (1909-2001), (cimetière sud)
- Alexandre Alekhine (1892-1946), (8e division)
- Étienne Arago (1802-1892), (10e division)
- Michèle Arnaud (1919-1998), (7e division)
- Raymond Aron (1905-1983), (24e division)
- Georges Auric (1899-1983), (2e division)

B
- Shapour Bakhtiar (1914-1991)
- César Baldaccini (1921-1998), (3e division)
- Théodore de Banville (1823-1891), (13e division)
- Raymond Barre (1924-2007), (18e division)
- Frédéric Bartholdi (1834-1904), (28e division)
- Maryse Bastié (1898-1952), (6e division)
- Jane Bathori (1877-1970)
- Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), (6e division)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), (20e division)
- Jacques Becker (1906-1960), (22e division)
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), (12e division)
- Paul Belmondo (1898-1982), (2e division)
- Emmanuel Berl (1892-1976), (25e division)
- Aloysius Bertrand (1807-1841), (10e division)
- Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847-1907)
- Philippe Besnard (1942-2003)
- Jean-Marie Bonnassieux (1810-1892)
- Albert Bouasse dit Bouasse-Lebel (1868-1955)
- Henri-Marie Bouasse dit Bouasse-Lebel (1828-1912)
- Simon, comte Boucher de la Rupelle (1865-1928), (19e division)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905),
- Christine Boumeester (1904-1971), (12e division)
- Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), (15e division)
- Paul Bourget, (1852-1935) (26e division)
- Marcel Bozzuffi, (1929-1988), (7e division)
- Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), (18e division)
- Gyula Brassaï (1899-1984), (2e division)
- Jean Bruller dit Vercors (1902-1991), (29e division)

C
- Roger Caillois (1913-1978), (27e division)
- Jean Carmet (1920-1994), (4e division)
- Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997), (6e division)
- Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811-1899), (18e division)
- Dominique Hyacinthe Cavaillé-Coll (1771-1862), (18e division)
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), (9e division)
- Honoré Champion (1846-1913), (3e division)
- Victor Cherbuliez (1829-1899)
- Ferdinand Chesnais (1986-2006), (7e division)
- Emil Cioran (1911-1995), (13e division)
- André Citroën (1879-1935), (28e division)
- Antoni Clavé (1913-2005)
- Gustave-Gaspard Coriolis (1792-1843)
- Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), (3e division)
- Maurice Couve de Murville (1907-1999), (18e division)
- Adolphe Crémieux (1796-1880), (5e division)
- Charles Cros (1842-1888), (29e division)

D
- Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902), (4e division)
- Louise Sébastienne Danton (Sébastienne-Louise Gély)
- Georges Dayan (1915-1979)
- Jacques Demy (1931-1990), (9e division)
- Paul Deschanel (1855-1922), (14e division)
- Robert Desnos (1900-1945), (15e division)
- Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), (15e division)
- Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), (28e division)
- Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), (15e division)
- Claude-François-Etienne baron Dupin
- Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), (21e division)
- Émile Durkheim (1858-1917),

E
- Robert Enrico (1931-2001), (12e division)
- Antoine Étex (1808-1888), (7e division)
- Prosper d'Épinay, (1836-1914)

F
- Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), (10e division)
- Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947), (18e division)
- Pierre Fédida (1934-2002), (14e division)
- Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936) (18e division)
- César Auguste Franck (1822-1890), (26e division)
- Gisèle Freund (1908-2000), (12e division)

G
- Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), (1re division)
- Charles Garnier (1825-1898), (11e division)
- Sébastienne-Louise Gély (1777-1856)
- François Gérard (1770-1837), (1re division)
- Arthur Giry (1848-1899)
- Henri Goetz (1909-1989), (12e division)
- Olivier Greif (1950-2000), (17e division)
- Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), (20e division)

H
- Jean Hachette (1769-1834), (15e division)
- Clara Haskil (1895-1960), (4e division)
- Charles Hermite (1822-1901),
- Lucien Hervé (László Elkán, 1910-2007)
- Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814-1886), (7e division)
- Kamesuke Hiraga (1889-1971), (4e division)
- Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), (1re division)
- Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), (2e division)

I
- Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), (6e division)
- Ipoustéguy (1920-2006)
- Joris Ivens (1898-1989)

J
- Yves Jouffa (1920-1999)
- Pierre Jean Jouve (1887-1976), (9e division)
- Jussieu (de), (1re division)
- Mladen Josić (1897-1972),

K
- Gustave Kahn (1859-1936)
- Joseph Kessel (1898-1979), (28e division)
- Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont (1914-2006) (10e division)
- Pinchus Kremegne (1890-1981),

L
- Fernand Labori (1860-1917),
- Auguste Lacaussade (1815-1891)
- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829)
- Henri Langlois (1914-1977), (6e division)
- Pierre Larousse (1817-1875), (14e division)
- Henri Laurens (1885-1954), (7e division)
- Auguste Laurent (1807-1853)
- Pierre Laval (1883-1945)
- Jane de La Vaudère (1857-1908), (8e division)
- Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941), (10e division)
- Gérard Lebovici (1932-1984), (25e division)
- Jean Le Moal (1909-2007)
- Philippe Léotard (1940-2001), (9e division)
- Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), (11e division)
- Jérôme Lindon (1925-2001), (12e division)
- Émile Littré (1801-1881), (3e division)
- Pierre Loeb, galeriste
- André de Lorde (1871-1942), (8e division)
- Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), (26e division)

M
- Man Ray (1890-1976), (7e division)
- Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), (26e division)
- Alex Métayer (1930-2004), (9e division)
- Georges Michel (1763-1843)
- Joseph Michon (1836-1904)
- Louis Michon (1892-1973)
- Mireille (1906-1996), c (25e division)
- Joëlle Mogensen (1953-1982)
- María Montez (1912-1951),
- Véronique Mourousi (1961-1992), (18e division)
- Yves Mourousi (1942-1998), (18e division)
- Philippe Muray (1945-2006), (10e division)

N
- Philippe Noiret (1930 - 2006), (3e division)

O
- Gérard Oury (1919-2006), (5e division)

P
- Jean-Claude Pascal (1927-1992), (25e division)
- Pascin (1885-1930), (Julius Mordecai Pincas).
- Adolphe Pégoud (1889-1915), (4e division)
- Simon Petlioura (1879-1926)
- Maurice Pialat (1925-2003)
- Charles Pigeon (1838-1915), (22e division)
- Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), (16e division)
- Jean Poiret (1926-1992), (4e division)
- François Pouqueville (1770-1838)
- Professeur Choron, (1929-2005), (26e division)
- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), (2e division)

Q
- Joseph-Marie Quérard (1796-1865), (25e division)
- Edgar Quinet (1803-1875), (11e division)

R
- Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922-2000), (3e division)
- Serge Reggiani (1922-2004)
- Reiser (1941-1983), (13e division)
- Henri Rendu (1834-1902),
- Jean-François Revel (1924-2006), (10e division)
- Paul Reynaud (1878-1966), (22e division)
- Yves Robert (1920-2002), (9e division)
- Frédéric Rossif (1922-1990)
- François Rude (1784-1855), (1re division)

S
- Jean Sablon (1906-1994)
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), (17e division)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), (13e division)
- Sameshima Naonobu (1844-1880)
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), (20e division)
- Claude Sautet (1924-2000), (1re division)
- George Schéhadé (1907-1989),
- Ketty Schwartz (1937-2007), (30e division)
- Léon Schwartzenberg (1923-2003)
- Marcel Schwob (1867-1905), (5e division)
- Gaspard-Léonard Scrive (1815-1861), (9e division)
- Jean Seberg (1938-1979), (13e division)
- Pierre Seghers (1906-1987), (7e division)
- Sergents de La Rochelle (exécutés en 1822) : Boriès, Pomier, Raoulx and Goudin (8e division)
- Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990), (15e division)
- Susan Sontag (1933-2004)
- Chaïm Soutine (1893-1943), (15e division)
- Lucien Steinberg (1926-2008), (5e division)
- Jean-Pierre Stirbois (1943-1988), (10e division)

T
- Roland Topor (1938-1997), (14e division)
- Gilbert Trigano (1920-2001), (30e division)
- Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), (8e division)
- Henri Troyat (1911-2007), (2e division)

U
- Joseph Uchard (1809-1891),

V

- Françoise Verny (1928-2004), (5e division)
- Louis Vaneau (1811-1830)
- César Vallejo (1892-1938)
- Louis Vierne (1870-1937)

W
- Adolphe Léon Willette (1857-1926), (2e division)

Y
- Hubert Yencesse (1900-1987).

Z
- Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967),(8e division)
- Sabine Zlatin (1907-1996)

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

Cemetery of Montparnasse