Cimetière de Montmartre
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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, Le Cimetière du Père Lachaise in the east, Cimetière de Passy in the west and Cimetière du Montparnasse 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:
- Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), composer
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), composer
- André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836), physicist (electrical unit ampere named for him)
- Michel Berger (1947-1992), composer, singer
- Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), composer
- Lili Boulanger (1893-1918), composer
- Marcel Boussac (1889-1980), entrepreneur
- Václav Broík (1851-1901), Czech painter
- Antoine Carême (1784-1883), famed inventor of classical cuisine
- Fanny Cerrito (1817-1909), Italian ballerina
- Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856), painter
- 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
- Georges Feydeau (1862-1921), playwright of La Belle Époque
- Léon Foucault (1819-1868), scientist
- Carole Fredericks (1952-2001), African-American singer
- Pauline Garcia-Viardot (1821-1910), opera singer, composer
- Théophile Gautier (1811-1872), poet, novelist
- Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), author/publisher (patron of the Prix Goncourt)
- Amédée Gordini (1899-1979), Gordini sports car manufacturer
- La Goulue (Louise Weber) (1866-1929), Can-can dancer
- Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), artist
- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957), actor/director
- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet
- Fanny Heldy (1888-1973), Belgian soprano
- Marcel Jouhandeau (1888-1979), author
- Louis Jouvet (1887-1951), actor
- Marie Pierre Koenig (1898-1970), Free French Field Marshal
- Joseph Kosma (1905-1969), composer
- Eugène Labiche (1815-1888), dramatist
- Dominique Laffin (1952-1985), actress
- Frédérick Lemaître (1800-1876), actor
- 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
- Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), Russian ballet dancer
- Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), German composer
- Jacob Rodrigues Péreire (1715-1780), educator
- Alphonsine Plessis (1824-1847), "La Dame aux Cemélias"
- Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829-1871), novelist
- Francisque Poulbot (1879-1946), painter & illustrator
- Julie Récamier (1777-1849), woman of letters
- Salomon Reinach (1858-1932), archaeologist
- Ernest Renan (1823-1892), writer
- Henri Sauguet (1901-1989), composer
- Adolphe Sax (1814-1894), musical instrument artisan (inventor of saxophone)
- Ary Scheffer (1795-1858), painter
- Juliusz Slowaki (1803-1849), Polish poet
- Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)(1783-1842), writer
- Constant Troyon (1810-1865), painter
- François Truffaut (1932-1984), film-maker in French New Wave
- Horace Vernet (1789-1863), painter
- Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863), poet, playwright, novelist
- Émile Zola (1840-1902), author
(buried here for six years, then moved to the Panthéon in 1908)
- Johann Maria Farina (1785-1864) (aka Jean Marie Jospeh Farina or Giovanni Maria Farina), inventor and manufacturer of Eau-de-Cologne.
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