Montmartre Cemetery

Montmartre Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th 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 19th 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:

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A

  • 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

B

  • Michel Berger (1947-1992), composer, singer
  • Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), composer (although he was originally buried in a different, less prominent plot in the same cemetery)
  • Mélanie "Mel" Bonis (1858-1937), 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
  • Myles Byrne (1780-1862), Irish revolutionary soldier

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

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
  • Isidore Lucien Ducasse(1846-1870), Poet

F

  • Johann Maria 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.
  • Christopher Fratin (1801-1864), animalier sculptor
  • Carole Fredericks (1952-2001), African-American singer

G

  • 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
  • Charles Gumery (1827-1871), sculptor

H

  • Fromental Halévy (1799-1862), composer
  • Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet
  • Fanny Heldy (1888-1973), Belgian soprano
  • Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792-1867), architect

I

  • François-André Isambert (1792—1857), Lawyer, historian, and politician

J

  • Maurice Jaubert (1900-1940), composer, conductor
  • André Jolivet (1905-1974), composer
  • Marcel Jouhandeau (1888-1979), author
  • Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), actor
  • Anna Judic (1850-1911), actress, chanteuse

K

  • Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1784-1849), pianist, composer
  • Marie Pierre Koenig (1898-1970), Free French Field Marshal
  • Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), playwright, director
  • Joseph Kosma (1905-1969), composer

L

  • Eugène Labiche (1815-1888), dramatist
  • Dominique Laffin (1952-1985), actress
  • Charles Lamoureux (1834-1899), violinist
  • Jean Lannes (1769-1809), Marshal of France
  • Pierre Leonard Laurecisque (1797-1880), architect
  • Frédérick Lemaître (1800-1876), actor
  • Emma Livry (1842-1863), ballet dancer

M

  • Aimé Maillart (1817-1871), composer
  • Henri Meilhac (1831-1897), dramatist
  • Mary Marquet (1895-1979), actress
  • Victor Massé (1822-1884), composer
  • Auguste de Montferrand (1786-1858), architect
  • Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), symbolist painter
  • Henri Murger (1822-1861), novelist
  • Musidora (Jeanne Roques) (1889-1957), silent film actress, film director

N

  • Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer
  • Adolphe Nourrit (1802-1839), tenor

O

  • Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), French composer of German descent
  • Georges Ohnet (1848-1919), writer

P

  • Théophile-Jules Pelouze (1807-1867), chemist
  • Emile Péreire (1800-1875), financier
  • Isaac Péreire (1806-1880), financier
  • Jacob Rodrigues Péreire (1715-1780), educator
  • Francis Picabia (1879-1953), painter
  • Alphonsine Plessis (1824-1847), "La Dame aux Camélias"
  • Patrick Pons (1952-1980), mortorcycle racer
  • Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829-1871), novelist
  • Jean Le Poulain (1924-1988), actor
  • Francisque Poulbot (1879-1946), painter & illustrator
  • Olga Preobrajenska (1871-1962), ballet dancer

Q

R

  • Juliette Récamier (1777-1849), French socialite and woman of letters
  • Salomon Reinach (1858-1932), archaeologist
  • Ernest Renan (1823-1892), writer
  • Jacques Rigaut (1898-1929), poet
  • Henri Rivière (1827-1883), French naval officer and a writer

S

  • Henri Sauguet (1901-1989), composer
  • Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), musical instrument artisan (inventor of saxophone)
  • Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), painter
  • Philippe Paul, comte de Ségur (1780-1873), historian
  • Juliusz Słowacki (1803-1849), Polish poet
  • Fernando Sor (1778-1839), guitarist
  • Alexandre Soumet (1788-1845), poet
  • Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783-1842), writer
  • Claude Simon

T

  • Marie Taglioni (1804-1884), ballerina
  • Ludmilla Tcherina (1924-2004), dancer, actress and painter
  • Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896), opera composer
  • Constant Troyon (1810-1865), painter
  • François Truffaut (1932-1984), film-maker in French New Wave

U

V

  • Pierre-Jean Vaillard (1918-1988), actor
  • Horace Vernet (1789-1863), painter
  • Auguste Vestris (1760-1842), dancer
  • Gaëtan Vestris (1729-1808), dancer
  • Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), opera singer, composer
  • Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863), poet, playwright, novelist
  • Jean Baptiste Vuillaume (1798-1875), luthier

W

  • René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846-1904), politician
  • Georges Fernand Isidore Widal (1862-1929), bacteriologist

X

Y

Z

  • Émile Zola (1840-1902), author (original site, moved to the Panthéon in 1908)

See also

  • List of famous cemeteries

External links

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Samantha Schwartz
10 November 2016
Fun place to spend an afternoon. Many famous and important figures across the full gamut of industries are buried here. Have fun exploring and plan for an hour or two
Linh-Lan Dao
30 April 2017
Sympathique promenade au calme dans un cadre de verdure. On peut y trouver les tombes de Dalida, d'Emile Zola ou encore Hector Berlioz. Entrée gratuite.
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4 September 2016
Des plans avec toutes les tombes des personnes connues sont disponibles gratuitement à l'entrée au niveau du plan. Très pratique !
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31 October 2012
Vous pouvez vous recueillir sur les tombes de ceux qui ont marqué la France et la culture : Goncourt, Renan, Stendhal, Zola, Degas, Berlioz, Berger, Charcot, Guitry, Dalida et bien d’autres encore.
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27 September 2016
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