The Batignolles Cemetery (french: Cimetière des

Batignolles Batignolles () is a neighbourhood of Paris, part of its 17th arrondissement. The neighbourhood is bounded on the south by the Boulevard des Batignolles, on the east by the Avenue de Clichy, on the north by Rue Cardinet and on the west by the Rue ...

) is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a bu ...

in Paris.

History

Batignolles Cemetery opened on 22 August 1833. Part of the cemetery had to be closed and the graves moved because of the construction of the great ring road ( Boulevard Périphérique, between the exits of Porte de Clichy and Porte de Saint-Ouen).

Description

Extending over nearly eleven hectares, slightly larger than the Montmartre Cemetery, Batignolles Cemetery contains approximately fifteen thousand graves, and it is the fourth cemetery ''intra muros'' of Paris, in terms of the number of graves. In terms of land area, only the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Montparnasse Cemetery are larger.Paris Townhall website; ''Memoirs of Cora Pearl''; Granada Publishing; 1984
Within its perimeter, there are approximately nine hundred mature trees, mostly chestnuts and maples. Because of the construction of apartment buildings next to the cemetery, the Avenue des Fortifications is no longer accessible (from 2009-?).

Notable burials

Batignolles is now the home for the earthly remains of André Barsacq, Alexandre Benois,

André Breton André Robert Breton (; 19 February 1896 – 28 September 1966) was a French writer and poet, the co-founder, leader, and principal theorist of surrealism. His writings include the first ''Surrealist Manifesto'' (''Manifeste du surréalisme'') o ...

Alfred Bruneau Louis Charles Bonaventure Alfred Bruneau (3 March 1857 – 15 June 1934) was a French composer who played a key role in the introduction of realism in French opera. Life Born in Paris, Bruneau studied the cello as a youth at the Paris Conservator ...

, Lucienne Bréval, Gaston Calmette, Blaise Cendrars, Clémentine de Vère,

Léon Dierx Léon Dierx (; March 31, 1838 – June 11, 1912) was a French poet born in Saint-Denis in 1838. He came to Paris to study at the Central School of Arts and Manufactures and subsequently settled there, taking up a post in the education office. H ...

, Pierre Dreyfus, Marguerite Durand, Hélène Dutrieu,

Jean L'Herminier Jean L'Herminier (25 July 1902 - 7 June 1953) was a French naval officer, most notable for his command of the ''Redoutable''-class submarine ''Casabianca''. Life 1902-1940 Born into a naval family in Fort-de-France, he studied at the Collège Sta ...

Cora Pearl Cora Pearl (born Eliza Emma Crouch; December 1836 – 8 July 1886) was an English courtesan or cocotte of the French demimonde who became most well known during the period of the Second French Empire. Early life Eliza Emma Crouch was born in Ply ...

, Joséphin Péladan,

Benjamin Péret Benjamin Péret (4 July 1899 – 18 September 1959) was a French poet, Parisian Dadaist and a founder and central member of the French Surrealist movement with his avid use of Surrealist automatism. Biography Benjamin Péret was born in Rez� ...

, Ray Ventura, Paul Vidal, Édouard Vuillard and

André Zirnheld André Louis Arthur Zirnheld (March 7, 1913 – July 27, 1942) was a French paratrooper, a member of the Free French Air Force, and a member of the French Squadron, Special Air Service during World War II. He is famous for being the first French ...

(in the family grave), among others. Before the opening of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery the cemetery was a popular burial place for members of the Russian Orthodox community. Many are buried in the ''carré russe-orthodoxe'', division 25. Among them Léon Bakst, Sergei Lyapunov, Pavel Milyukov and Pavel Ryabushinsky. Feodor Chaliapin was buried here but his remains were later reburied in Novodevichy Cemetery in

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. The grave of Paul Verlaine was originally in division 20 but had to be moved to the roundabout (at the crossing of Avenue Principale and Avenue Transversale). The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, that of a

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) an ...

officer of 1918.
CWGC Cemetery Report.

Location

The cemetery is located in the

Épinettes Épinettes () is a neighborhood of Paris, a part of the 17th arrondissement of the city. The neighborhood is bounded by the Avenue de Clichy, the Avenue de Saint-Ouen and the boundaries of Paris in the North. History Epinettes were part of B ...

district, in the northeastern part of the

17th arrondissement The 17th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, it is referred to as ''le dix-septième'' (; "the seventeenth"). The arrondissement, known as Batignoll ...

. The entry to the cemetery is at the intersection of Rue Saint-Just and Avenue du Cimetière des Batignolles. The cemetery is lodged between the Boulevard Périphérique and the Lycée International Honoré de Balzac.

Public transport

The Batignolles Cemetery is a short walk from the Porte de Clichy station, which can be reached by taking line 13 or the C line commuter train. Other nearby Métro stations are Brochant, Mairie de Clichy and Porte de Saint-Ouen. The Batignolles Cemetery is also served by bus lines 54, 74, 138, 173, PC There are Vélib' stations at Avenue de la Porte de Clichy (17014 and 17114) and at Boulevard Berthier (17106).

References

External links

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Batignolles Cemetery on the Mairie of the 17th arrondissement website
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Batignolles Cemetery on the Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs website
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Batignolles Cemetery on the Mairie of Paris website (including map)
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Plan of Batignolles Cemetery on the APPL website
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