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Montparnasse Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Montparnasse) is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city's 14th arrondissement.

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 19^th 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.

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.

Interments

Among those interred here are:

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

A

• Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), Russian-born chess world champion
• Jean-Michel Atlan (1913-1960), poet and painter
• Michele Arnaud (1919-1998), singer.
• Raymond Aron (1905-1983), philosopher, sociologist and political scientist.
• Tina Aumont (1946-2006), actress, daughter of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez
• Georges Auric (1899-1983), composer, member of Les Six

B

• Théodore de Banville (1823-1891), poet, writer
• Frédéric Bartholdi (1834-1904), sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
• Maryse Bastié (1898-1952), pioneer aviatrix
• Jane Bathori (1877-1970), opera singer
• Shapour Bakhtiar (1914-1991), last prime minister of the constitutional monarchy in Iran
• Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), famous poet
• Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007), French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer.
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), feminist philosopher & author
• Jacques Becker (1906-1960), filmmaker
• Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish author, playwright & poet
• Jean Béraud (1849-1935), painter
• Emmanuel Berl (1892-1976), writer
• Louis Gustave Binger (1856-1936), explorer
• William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), artist (painter in realist style)
• Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1921), sculptor & teacher
• Gérard Brach (1927-2006), screenwriter
• Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Romanian sculptor
• Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899-1984), photographer

C

• Roger Caillois (1913-1978), author
• Jean Carmet (1920-1994), actor
• Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811–1899), organ builder
• Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894), composer
• Honoré Champion (1846-1913), librarian and editor
• Emil Cioran (1911-1995), Romanian philosopher
• André Citroën (1878-1935), founded France's Citroën automobile factory
• Antoni Clavé (1913-2005), artist
• Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792-1843), mathematician
• Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentinian author
• Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801-1877), economist

D

• Jules Dalou (1838-1902), sculptor
• Pierre David-Weill (1900-1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
• Jacques Demy (1931-1990), film director
• Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Surrealist poet
• Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), longest serving Mexican President
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the Dreyfus affair)
• Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
• Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), author & movie director
• Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), sociologist

E

• Robert Enrico (1931-2001), film director
• Antoine Étex (1808-1888), sculptor

F

• Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), artist
• Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947), poet and essayist
• Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936), publisher
• César Franck (1822-1890), composer & organist
• Othon Friesz (1879-1949), painter

G

• Charles Garnier (1825-1898), designed the original Paris Opera House for Napoleon III
• Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), poet and singer
• Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859-1931), writer and first husband of Colette
• François Gérard (1770-1837), artist
• Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911), organist and composer

H

• Mireille Hartuch (1906-1996), singer, composer, and actress
• Clara Haskil (1895-1960), pianist
• Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), famous sculptor of notable men
• Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), author

I

• Roger Ibáñez (1931-2005), actor
• Vincent d'Indy (1851-1931), composer
• Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), Romanian playwright
• Jean Robert Ipousteguy (1920-2006), sculptor, painter

J

• Joëlle (1953-1982), American-born French singer
• Gustave Jundt (1830-1884), painter

K

• Joseph Kessel (1898-1979), writer
• Kiki (1901-1953), singer, actress, painter, "Queen of Montparnasse"

L

• Bernard Lacoste (1931-2006), apparel
• Henri Langlois (1914-1977), film preservationist
• Pierre Larousse (1817-1875), author of encyclopedia of Larousse Gastronomique
• Henri Laurens (1885-1954), sculptor, engraver
• Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), physician, parasitologist
• Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941), biographer of Arsene Lupin, novelist
• Jean Henri Lefortier (1819-1886), painter
• Philippe Léotard (1940-2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer
• Jacques Lisfranc (1790-1847), gynecologist and surgeon
• Émile Littré (1801-1881) lexicographer, philosopher
• Baltasar Lobo (1910-1993), Spanish sculptor
• Sylvia Lopez (1931-1959), actress
• Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), poet, romance novelist

M

• Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), Egyptologist
• Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), author
• Catulle Mendès (1841-1909), poet, man of letters
• Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868), actress, poet
• André Meyer (1898-1979), French/American financier
• Mireille (1906-1996), singer, composer
• Maria Montez (1912-1951), actress

N

• Max Nordau (1849-1923), Zionist leader, physician, author,
• Philippe Noiret (1930-2006), actor

O

• Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853), toxicologist, chemist
• Gerard Oury (1919-2006), director

P

• Adolphe Pegoud (1889-1915) aviator
• Simon Petlyura (1879-1926), Ukrainian leader
• Maurice Pialat (1925-2003), film director
• Jules Henri Poincaré, (1854-1912), mathematician and physicist
• Jean Poiret (1926-1992), actor, film director
• François Charles Henri Laurent Pouqueville (1770-1838), Diplomat, writer, historian, archaeologist, physician
• Visarion Puiu (1879 - 1964), Romanian metropolitan bishop

Q

• Edgar Quinet (1803-1875), historian

R

• Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000), flautist
• Man Ray (1890-1976), American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer
• Serge Reggiani (1922-2004), singer, actor
• Jean-Marc Reiser (1941-1983), comic artist
• Pierre Restany (1930-2003), art critic
• Yves Robert (1920-2002), actor, director
• Yves Rocard (1903-1992), physicist
• Frédéric Rossif (1922-1990), filmmaker
• François Rude (1784-1855), sculptor
• Julio Ruelas (1870-1907), Mexican painter
• Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803-1877), German inventor

S

• Jean Sablon (1906-1994), singer
• Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), literary critic, author

• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
• Jules Sandeau (1811-1883), novelist
• Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French philosopher & novelist
• Claude Sautet (1924-2000), film director
• Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress & civil rights activist
• Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990), actress
• Susan Sontag (1933-2004), American author & philosopher
• Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005), Venezuelan kinetic sculptor and painter
• Chaim Soutine (1893 – August 9, 1943), painter of the School of Paris

T

• Christophe Tarkos (1963-2004), poet
• Boris Taslitzky (1911-2005), painter
• Augustin Thierry (1795-1856), historian
• Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Romanian Dadaist poet and essayist
• Roland Topor (1938-1997), writer, illustrator
• Henri Troyat (1911-2007), author

U

V

• César Vallejo (1892-1938), Peruvian poet
• Louis Veuillot (1813-1883), journalist
• Vierne Louis (1870-1937), composer, organist

W

• Henri Wallon (1812-1904), historian, statesman
• Adolphe Willette (1857-1926), painter

X

Y

• Saúl Yurkievich (1931-2005), poet

Z

• Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), Russian-born sculptor & artist

See also

List of other famous cemeteries

External links

• Cimetière du Montparnasse (City of Paris official site)
• Map of the Montparnasse cemetery (PDF, 910 ko)
• Panoramic image of the Montparnasse cemetery
• A collection of photos of the cemetery's many sculpted monuments
• A list of many buried at the cemetery
• Photographs of Montparnasse cemetery
• Written in Stone - Burial locations of literary figures.
• Information and help in touring Montparnasse cemetery In English
• Documenting funerary statuary in Paris cemeteries on pariscemeteries.com
• A Paris 'Garden of Stone'

Coordinates: 48°50′17″N, 2°19′37″E

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