Montmartre Cemetery

The Cemetery of Montmartre (French: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Montparnasse Cemetery.

History

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, the Cimetière 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 and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.

The Montmartre Cemetery was opened on 1 January 1825. It was initially known as le Cimetière des Grandes Carrières (Cemetery of the Large Quarries).[1] The name referenced the cemetery's unique location, in an abandoned gypsum quarry. The quarry had previously been used during the French Revolution as a mass grave. It was built below street level, in the hollow of an abandoned gypsum quarry located west of the Butte near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place de Clichy. As is still the case today, its sole entrance was constructed on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt.[2]

A popular tourist destination, Montmartre Cemetery is the final resting place of many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area. See the full list of notable interments below.

The Montmartre Cemetery with the Rue Caulaincourt viaduct passing through it

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Henri-Georges Clouzot's grave

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Tomb of Edgar Degas
The tomb of Alexandre Dumas, fils

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Renée Jeanne Falconetti

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Grave of Jean Léon Gérôme, Aimé Morot and family (Cimetière de Montmartre, 18th division)
  • France Gall (1947–2018), singer
  • Theophile Gautier (1811–1872), poet, novelist
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904), painter
  • Eugène Gigout (1844–1925), composer and organist
  • José Melchor Gomis (1791–1836), Spanish Romantic composer
  • Edmond de Goncourt (1822–1896), author/publisher, brother of Jules (patron of the Prix Goncourt)
  • Jules de Goncourt (1830–1870), author/publisher, brother of Edmond and buried in the same grave. Also patron of the Prix Goncourt
  • Amédée Gordini (1899–1979), Gordini sports car manufacturer
  • La Goulue (Louise Weber) (1866–1929), Can-can dancer (she was originally buried in the Cimetière de Pantin)
  • Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), artist
  • Béla Grünwald (1839–1891), Hungarian historian and politician
  • Jules Guérin (1860–1910), nationalist political radical
  • Lucien Guitry (1860–1925), actor
  • Sacha Guitry (1885–1957), actor/director
  • Charles Gumery (1827–1871), sculptor

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Heinrich Heine

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  • François-André Isambert (1792–1857), lawyer, historian, and politician
Daniel Iffla
  • Daniel Iffla (1825–1907), Jewish philanthropist and financier

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  • 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
  • Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779–1869), general, military author

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Statue on the tomb of Miecislas Kamieński

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Margaret Kelly Leibovici

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Tombstone of Vaslav Nijinsky in Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. The statue shows Nijinsky as the puppet Petrouchka.
  • Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), ballet dancer
  • Adolphe Nourrit (1802–1839), tenor
  • Eugène Nyon (1812–1870), playwright and novelist
  • Alphonse de Neuville (1836–1885), painter whose funerary monument was realized by Francis de Saint-Vidal

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Tomb of Jacques Offenbach.
  • Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880), French composer of German descent
  • Georges Ohnet (1848–1919), writer
  • Harriet Osborne O'Hagan (1830–1921), Irish portrait artist

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  • Juliette Récamier (1777–1849), socialite and woman of letters
  • Salomon Reinach (1858–1932), archaeologist
  • Ernest Renan (1823–1892), writer (buried in the Ary Scheffer grave)
  • Jacques Rigaut (1898–1929), poet
  • Jacques Rivette (1928–2016), film director and film critic
  • Henri Rivière (1827–1883), naval officer, writer
  • Jean Rédélé (1922–2007), automotive pioneer, pilot and founder of the French automotive brand Alpine.
  • 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 painter

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Tomb of Stendhal
  • Joseph Isidore Samson (1793–1871), actor and playwright
  • Henri Sauguet (1901–1989), composer
  • Adolphe Sax (1814–1894), musical instrument artisan (inventor of saxophone)
  • Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), painter
  • Cornélia Scheffer (1830–1899), sculptor and designer
  • Helen G. Scott (1915–1987), Truffaut / Hitchcock
  • Philippe Paul de Ségur, Count of Ségur (1780–1873), historian
  • Claude Simon (1913–2005), novelist
  • Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849), Polish romantic poet
  • Harriet Smithson (1808–1854), Anglo-Irish actress, the first wife of Hector Berlioz, and the inspiration for his Symphonie fantastique
  • Fernando Sor (1778–1839), guitarist
  • Alexandre Soumet (1788–1845), poet
  • Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842), writer
  • Charles Henri Sanson (1739–1806), executioner of Louis XVI

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François Truffaut

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  • René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), politician
  • Walenty Wańkowicz (1799–1842), painter
  • Georges-Fernand Widal (1862–1929), bacteriologist

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  • Émile Zola (1840–1902), author (original site, moved to the Panthéon in 1908). The Zola family grave is still there, with Émile's name on it.

See also

References
  1. Waldman, Benjamin. "The Treasures of the Montmartre Cemetery". untapped cities. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  2. "Montmartre cemetery". Mairie de Paris. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 10 July 2014.
  3. Allée Montmorency, concession no. 408/1853. See Tamvaco, Jean-Louis (2000). "Dabadie / Leroux [les]", pp. 919–921, in Les Cancans de l'Opéra: Chroniques de l'Académie Royale de Musique et du théâtre, à Paris sous les deux Restaurations. CNRS. 1307 pages. OCLC 1063925895. ISBN 2271057426.
  4. Baxter, John (2011–2012). Chronicles of Old Paris: Exploring the Historic City of Light. New York: Museyon. p. 227.
  5. "Ольга Иосифовна Преображенская (Olga Preobrajenska)". Belcanto.ru. 27 December 1962. Retrieved 28 February 2012.
  6. Arnold Lionel Haskell. The Ballet annual: a record and year book of the ballet: Vol. 18, 1963
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