Passy Cemetery in Paris

The Passy Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Passy) is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schlœsing in Passy, in the 16ème arrondissement of Paris, France.

In the early 19th century, on the orders of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, all the cemeteries in Paris were replaced by several large new ones outside the precincts of the capital. The Montmartre Cemetery was built in the north, the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in the east, and the Montparnasse Cemetery in the south. The Passy Cemetery was a later addition, but has its origins in the same edict.

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Opened in 1820 in the expensive residential and commercial districts of the Right Bank near the Champs-Élysées, by 1874 the small Passy Cemetery had become the aristocratic necropolis of Paris. It is the only cemetery in Paris to have a heated waiting-room.

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The retaining wall of the cemetery is adorned with a bas relief commemorating the soldiers who fell in the Great War. Sheltered by a bower of chestnut trees, this beautiful cemetery sits in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. ]]

Among its more famous residents are:

Annabella (1909–1996) - actress
Bảo Đại (1913–1997) - the last Emperor of Vietnam
Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1994) - actor and director; buried with his wife, the actress Madeleine Renaud
Louis-Ernest Barrias (1841–1905) - sculptor
Jeanne Julia Bartet (1854–1941) - actress
Marie Bashkirtseff (1858–1884) - Russian artist famous for her published journal; her tomb is a recreation of her studio and has been declared a historical monument by the government of France
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. (1848–1918) - American newspaper publisher, sportsman
Tristan Bernard (1866–1947) - playwright and novelist
Henri Bernstein (1876–1953) - actor
Princess Brassova (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov) (1880–1952) - wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov
Georgi, Count Brasov (1910–1931) - son of Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov and Princess Brassova (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov)
Marcel Dassault (1892–1986) - engineer, founder of Dassault Aviation
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) - impressionist classical music composer
Maxime Dethomas (1867-1929) - artist
Ghislaine Dommanget (1900–1991) - Princess of Monaco
Michel Droit (1923–2000) - novelist, member of the Académie française
Henry Farman (1874–1958) - champion cyclist and aviator
Edgar Faure (1908–1988) - statesman and Second World War resistance fighter
Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) - composer
Fernandel (Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin) (1903–1971) - comedy actor
Maurice Gamelin (1872–1958) - supreme commander of French armed forces 1939–1940
Maurice Genevoix (1946–1980) - novelist
Virgil Gheorghiu, (1916–1992) - novelist
Jean Giraudoux (1882–1944) - playwright, soldier, and statesman
Anna Gould (1878 - 1961) - socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould
Gabriel Hanotaux (1853–1944) - statesman and historian
Paul Hervieu (1857–1915) - dramatist and novelist
Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi (1920–2005)- economist, Iranian statesman
Jacques Ibert (1890–1962) - composer
Paul Landowsky (1875–1961) - architect and sculptor
Princess Leila of Iran (1970–2001) - daughter of the Shah of Iran
Georges Mandel (1885–1944) - statesman, French Resistance during WWII
Édouard Manet (1832–1883) - realist and impressionist painter
André Messager (1853–1929) - musician, composer
Alexandre Millerand (1859–1943) - President of France
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) - anarchist, art critic, and novelist
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) - impressionist painter
Gabrielle Réjane (1856–1920) - actress
Madeleine Renaud (1900–1994) - actress; buried with her husband, the actor and director Jean-Louis Barrault
Marcel Renault (1872–1903) - industrialist, racing driver, co-founder of Renault motor company
Maurice Rostand (1891–1968) - playwright
Haroun Tazieff (1914–1998) - vulcanologist
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) - writer, poet
Pearl White (1889–1938) - American silent film star, famous for doing her own stunts in her serials The Perils of Pauline
Jean-Pierre Wimille (1908–1949) - Grand Prix race driver