Montparnasse Cemetery

The Cimetière Montparnasse (formerly Cimetière du Sud ) is one of the three great Parisian cemeteries that were created outside of the then city limits beginning of the 19th century and thus before the last incorporation (1860 ). At that time the Montmartre Cemetery originated (formerly Cimetière du Nord ) and the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery (formerly East Cemetery ) and the Passy Cemetery.

History

At the site of the present cemetery were three old farms and a mill ( 14-15. Century), at which the students of the Jesuit College Louis -le- Grand tended to direct their steps in their spare time, which is why the mill due to one of the Jesuit theologians Molina triggered controversy was initially called derisively " Moulin Moliniste ". As the community of the Brothers of St John of God ( Frères de la Charité) in 1654 took possession of the premises, to make it to their burial site, they preserved the henceforth Moulin de la Charité -called mill ( 14-15. century), which can be seen in the cemetery today, albeit without their wings. From 1784 also the dead of the company founded by the brothers near the Bourg Saint- Germain Hôpital de la Charité were buried here. At the beginning of the 19th century the Paris Prefect Nicolas Frochot bought the ground to create the new cemetery. The first burial took place in 1824.

Tombs of famous people

Interments the years 1800-1899

  • Théodore de Banville (1823-1891), poet
  • Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), poet
  • Aristide Cavaillé -Coll (1811-1899), an organ builder
  • Gustave - Gaspard Coriolis (1792-1843), mathematician and engineer
  • Isaac Adolphe Crémieux (1796-1880), politician
  • César Franck (1822-1890), composer
  • Charles Garnier (1825-1898), architect of the Opéra Garnier
  • François Gérard (1770-1837), painter
  • Jean -Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), sculptor
  • Gustave Jundt (1830-1884), Alsatian painter and caricaturist
  • Pierre Larousse (1817-1875), encyclopedist
  • Jacques Lisfranc (1790-1847), French surgeon
  • Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), writer
  • Prosper Ménière (1799-1862), physician
  • Pierre -Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), philosopher, anarchist
  • Mathieu Orfila (1787-1853), Chemist
  • Edgar Quinet (1803-1875), writer, historian
  • Andreas Riedel (1748-1837), mathematician, Revolutionary
  • François Rude (1784-1855), sculptor
  • Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff (1803-1877), German inventor
  • Charles Augustin Sainte -Beuve (1804-1869) poet, novelist, critic
  • Alexandre Camille Taponier, (1749-1831), General
  • Jules Dumont d' Urville (1790-1842), naval officer, explorer
  • Urbain Le Verrier (1811-1877), mathematician and astronomer

Interments the years 1900-1999

  • Lou Albert - Lasard, (1885-1969), German - French painter
  • Alexander Alekhine (1892-1946), Russian world chess champion
  • Georges Auric (1899-1983), composer
  • César Baldaccini (1921-1998), sculptor
  • Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), sculptor
  • Jane Bathori (1877-1970), opera singer
  • Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), philosopher and writer
  • Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908), physician and pharmacologist
  • Jacques Becker (1906-1960), Film Director
  • Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish writer
  • Paul Belmondo (1898-1982), sculptor, 2nd Division
  • Jean Béraud (1849-1935), painter
  • William -Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), painter
  • Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), sculptor
  • Paul Bourget (1852-1935), writer
  • Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), sculptor
  • Brassai ( Gyula Halasz, 1899-1984 ), Photographer of Romanian origin
  • Roger Caillois (1913-1978), writer
  • Jean Carmet (1920-1994), actor
  • André Citroën (1879-1935), car designer
  • Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Belgian writer Argentine origin
  • Aimé -Jules Dalou (1838-1902), sculptor
  • Jacques Demy (1931-1990), film director and producer
  • Paul Deschanel (1855-1922), French President
  • Robert Desnos (1900-1945), poet
  • Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), Mexican general and politician
  • Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), French officer
  • Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), writer
  • Henri Fantin -Latour (1836-1904), painter
  • Léon- Paul Fargue (1876-1947), poet
  • Ruth Fischer (1895-1961), German - Austrian politician
  • Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936), publisher
  • Othon Friesz (1879-1949), painter, 27th Division
  • Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), poet and singer
  • Gustave Guillaume (1883-1960), linguist
  • Helen Hessel (1886-1982), journalist, translator
  • Joris -Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), writer
  • Eugène Ionesco (1912-1994), dramatic author and writer
  • Alexandre Istrati (1915-1991), Romanian - French painter
  • Joseph Kessel (1898-1979), writer
  • Pinchus Krémègne (1890-1981), painter
  • Henri Langlois (1914-1977), collector, founder of the Cinémathèque française
  • Henri Laurens (1885-1954), sculptor
  • André Lhote (1885-1962), painter, art critic and art teacher
  • Joëlle Mogensen (1953-1982), singer
  • Maria Montez (1912-1951), actress
  • Jean -Claude Pascal (1927-1992), fashion designer, actor and singer
  • Pégoud Adolphe (1889-1915), pilot
  • Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), mathematician
  • Jean Poiret (1926-1992), Film Director
  • Lew Polugajewski (1934-1995), Russian- Soviet chess grandmaster
  • Man Ray (1890-1976), American artist
  • Paul Reynaud (1878-1966), politician
  • Camille Saint- Saëns (1835-1921), composer
  • Jean -Paul Sartre (1905-1980), philosopher
  • Georges Schehadé (1905-1989), Lebanese playwright and lyricist
  • Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress, wife of Romain Gary
  • Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990), actress
  • Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), painter
  • Manès Sperber (1905-1984), writer, social psychologist
  • Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), poet
  • Carlos Valenti (1888-1912), painter
  • César Vallejo (1892-1938), Peruvian writer and poet
  • Félix Vallotton (1865-1925), Swiss- French painter, printmaker, wood engraver and writer
  • Adolphe Willette (1857-1926), painter
  • Pan Yuliang (1895-1977), Chinese artist
  • Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), French sculptor of Russian origin

Burials since 2000

  • Tina Aumont (1946-2006), French actress
  • Pierre Bourgeade (1927-2009), journalist and writer
  • Gisèle Freund (1908-2000), German photographer
  • Jean Giraud (also known Mœbius ) ( 1938-2012 ), French comic book artist
  • Lucien Hervé ( László native Elkan ) ( 1910-2007 ), French photographer of Hungarian origin
  • Stéphane Hessel (1917-2013), French diplomat and poet of German origin
  • Jean Ipoustéguy (1920-2006), French sculptor
  • Philippe Noiret (1930-2006), French actor
  • Maurice Pialat (1925-2003), Film Director
  • Jean -Pierre Rampal (1922-2000), French flutist
  • Serge Reggiani (1922-2004), originally from Italy, composer and actor
  • Pierre Restany (1930-2003), French art critic
  • Éric Rohmer (1920-2010), French film and theater director
  • Ralph Rumney (1934-2002), British artist
  • Claude Sautet (1924-2000), French film director and screenwriter
  • Susan Sontag (1933-2004), American writer
  • Alain Resnais (1922-2014), French film director

Works by famous artists

  • Jean Arp: " La Roue " (1965), granite, on the grave of the art collector and Trader Pierre Loeb, 28th Division
  • César Baldaccini: grave sculpture, bronze, on the grave of the artist
  • Auguste Bartholdi: Bust of the painter Gustave Jundt (1886 ), bronze, 17th Division
  • Albert Bartholome: high relief on the grave of Honoré Champion ( † 1909), 3rd Division
  • Constantin Brancusi: " Le Baiser " ( The Kiss ) ( 1910), Stone, 22nd Division
  • Albert - Ernest Carrier -Belleuse: Woman figure and bust of J. Wattiez on the grave of the family Wattiez -Gaillard, marble, 27th Division
  • On the grave of Carpezat (1855 ), 6th Division Bronze Medallion: Jean -Baptiste Carpeaux
  • José de Charmoy: Stele on the grave of Sainte -Beuve († 1869), Stone, 17th Division
  • José de Charmoy: " Charles Baudelaire " (1902 ), stone pillar with a portrait of the poet, 27th Division
  • Horace Daillion: " Le Génie du sommeil éternel " (1889 ), bronze
  • Jules Dalou: marble bust on the grave of Charles Robert ( † 1899), 6th Division
  • Carle Elshoecht: bust and two bas-reliefs on the grave of the surgeon Jacques Lisfranc († 1847), bronze, 13th Division
  • Henri Lagriffoul: two stone figures of women (1945 ) on the grave Marchand, 22 Division
  • Henri Laurens: " La Douleur ", bronze, on the grave of the artist, 7th Division
  • Léopold Morice: " Pleureuse " marble, on the grave of the Morice family, 26th Division
  • Auguste Rodin: " César Franck " (1890), bronze medallion on the grave of the composer, 26th Division
  • Niki de Saint Phalle: " Le Chat Ricardo" (1989 ), polyester sculpture on the grave of Ricardo Menon ( 1952-1989 ), Assistant to the artist
  • Pierre Henri Varnier: " La famille Mirror" (1882 ), 13th Division
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis Charles Garnier (architect) Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Jean-Claude Pascal Jean-Pierre Rampal Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
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