The Rouen Monumental Cemetery () is the most important cemetery of the Norman city of

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine, in northwestern France. It is in the prefecture of Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one ...

, opened in 1828 and situated to the North-East of the town-centre. The entrance gate, the chapel and the monumental cross are the work of Charles Felix Maillet du Boullay.

Buried people

Charles Angrand Charles Angrand (; 19 April 1854 – 1 April 1926) was a French artist who gained renown for his Neo-Impressionist paintings and drawings. He was an important member of the Parisian avant-garde art scene in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Early ...

* Henry Barbet * Albert Beaucamp * Michel Bérégovoy * Édouard de Bergevin *

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(cœur) * Georges Bouctot * Louis Bouilhet * Louis Auguste de Bourbel de Montpinçon *

Jean-Baptiste Cécille Jean-Baptiste Thomas Médée Cécille (; 16 October 1787, Rouen – 9 November 1873) was a French Admiral and politician who played an important role in the French intervention of Vietnam. He also circumnavigated the globe. Military career In ...

* Marcel Couchaux *

Joseph-Désiré Court Joseph-Désiré Court (14 September 1797, Rouen – 23 January 1865, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects and portraits. Life and work He was a descendant of the portrait painter Hyacinthe Rigaud and displayed an early interest in a ...

* Pierre Chirol *

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Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

Suzanne Duchamp Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (20 October 1889 – 11 September 1963) was a French Dadaist painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsman. Her work was significant to the development of Paris Dada and modernism and her drawings and collages explore f ...

Raymond Duchamp-Villon Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor. Life and art Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Normandy region of France, the second son of Eugène and Lucie Duch ...

Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert ( , ; ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. He has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country and abroad. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flaubert, realis ...

* Jean Pierre Louis Girardin *

Jacques Hébertot Jacques Hébertot (; 28 January 1886, Rouen - 19 June 1970, Paris) was the pseudonym of André Daviel. He was a French theater director, poet, journalist and publisher. The Théâtre Hébertot in Paris has been named after him since 1940. Early ...

* Auguste Houzeau * Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois * Albert Lebourg * Théodore-Éloi Lebreton * Léon-Jules Lemaître * Valérius Leteurtre *

Juste Lisch Jean Juste Gustave Lisch (; 10 June 1828 – 24 August 1910) was a French architect.Ferdinand Marrou * Georges Métayer * Étienne Nétien * Émile Frédéric Nicolle *

Félix Archimède Pouchet Félix-Archimède Pouchet (26 August 1800 – 6 December 1872) was a French naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur's germ theory. He was the father of ...

* Raymond Quenedey *

Augustin Pouyer-Quertier Augustin Thomas Pouyer-Quertier, (2 September 1820 – 2 April 1891) was Minister for Finance of France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territ ...

* Marie Antoine de Reiset * Jean Revel * Louis Ricard *

Eugène Richard Marc-Eugène Richard (9 May 1843 – 30 April 1925) was a Swiss politician and President of the Swiss Council of States (1913/1914). Brief biography Eugène Richard was born in Geneva Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switz ...

Antoine Sénard Antoine Marie Jules Sénard (9 April 1800 – 29 October 1885) was a French lawyer and politician who was briefly President of the Constituent Assembly of the French Second Republic. After returning to private practice during the Second French Emp ...

Jacques Villon Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and Abstract art, abstract painter and printmaker. Early life Born Émile Méry Frédéric Gaston Duchamp in Damville, Eure, Damville, Eure, ...

* Francis Yard * Colette Yver

Cremated people

* Henri Gadeau de Kerville * Patrice Quéréel

Bibliography

* J. Rivage, ''Le Cimetière monumental'', Cagniard, Rouen, 1864 * Jean-Pierre Chaline, « L'Art funéraire expression d'une société ? L'exemple du Cimetière monumental de Rouen », dans ''Recueil d'études offert en hommage au Doyen M. de Boüard'', ''Annales de Normandie'', numéro spécial, Caen, 1982 * Jean-Pierre Chaline, « Mort d'un cimetière ? », in ''Bulletin des Amis des monuments rouennais'', 1993 * Jean-Pierre Chaline (dir.), ''Mémoire d'une ville, le Cimetière monumental de Rouen'', Société des Amis des monuments rouennais, Rouen, 1997 () *

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