The Cemetery of Montmartre () is a cemetery in the

18th arrondissement of Paris The 18th arrondissement of Paris (''XVIIIe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 Arrondissements of Paris, arrondissements, or administrative districts, of Paris, the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as '' ...

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, that dates to the early 19th century. Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the

Père Lachaise Cemetery Père Lachaise Cemetery (, , formerly , ) is the largest cemetery in Paris, France, at . With more than 3.5 million visitors annually, it is the most visited necropolis in the world. Buried at Père Lachaise are many famous figures in the ...

and the

Montparnasse Cemetery Montparnasse Cemetery () is a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, in the city's 14th arrondissement of Paris, 14th arrondissement. The cemetery is roughly 47 acres and is the second largest cemetery in Paris. The cemetery has over 35,00 ...

History

In the mid-18th century, overcrowding in the cemeteries of Paris had created numerous problems, from impossibly high funeral costs to unsanitary living conditions in the surrounding neighborhoods. In the 1780s, the

Cimetière des Innocents The Holy Innocents' Cemetery (French: Cimetière des Saints-Innocents or Cimetière des Innocents) is a defunct cemetery in Paris that was used from the Middle Ages until the late 18th century. It was the oldest and largest cemetery in Paris and ...

was officially closed and citizens were banned from burying corpses within the city limits of Paris. During the early 19th century, new cemeteries were constructed outside the precincts of the capital: Montmartre in the north,

in the east,

Passy Cemetery Passy Cemetery () is a small cemetery in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. History The current cemetery replaced the old cemetery (''l'ancien cimetière communal de Passy'', located on Rue Lekain), which was closed in 1802. ...

in the west and

in the south. The Montmartre Cemetery was opened on 1 January 1825. It was initially known as le Cimetière des Grandes Carrières (Cemetery of the Large Quarries). The name referenced the cemetery's unique location, in an abandoned gypsum quarry. The quarry had previously been used during the French Revolution as a mass grave. It was built below street level, in the hollow of an abandoned gypsum quarry located west of the ''Butte'' near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in '' Place de Clichy.'' As is still the case today, its sole entrance was constructed on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt. A popular tourist destination, Montmartre Cemetery is the final resting place of many famous artists who lived and worked in the

Montmartre Montmartre ( , , ) is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement of Paris, 18th arrondissement. It is high and gives its name to the surrounding district, part of the Rive Droite, Right Bank. Montmartre is primarily known for its a ...

area. See the full list of notable interments below. Begraafplaats Montmartre

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Adolphe Adam Adolphe Charles Adam (; 24 July 1803 – 3 May 1856) was a French composer, teacher and music critic. A prolific composer for the theatre, he is best known today for his ballets ''Giselle'' (1841) and ''Le corsaire'' (1856), his operas ''Le post ...

(1803–1856), composer * Yvette Alde (1911–1967), painter *

Charles-Valentin Alkan Charles-Valentin Alkan (; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, amon ...

(1813–1888), composer *

André-Marie Ampère André-Marie Ampère (, ; ; 20 January 177510 June 1836) was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as ''electrodynamics''. He is also the inventor of ...

(1775–1836), physicist (namesake of electrical unit

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) * Édouard André (1840–1911), landscape architect * Chloé Ansel (2006–2015), murder victim * Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806–1826), composer * Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941), painter

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Benjamin Ball (physician) Benjamin Ball (20 April 1833 – 23 February 1893) was a French psychiatrist who was born in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He was the first "Chair of Mental and Brain Diseases" at the Paris Faculty of Medicine. Early life He was born at Nap ...

(1833–1893), psychiatrist *

Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville (; ; February 23, 1680 – March 7, 1767), also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appo ...

(1680–1767), explorer, governor, founder of

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Michel Berger Michel Jean Hamburger (28 November 1947 – 2 August 1992), known professionally as Michel Berger, was a French singer and songwriter. He was a figure of France's pop music scene for two decades as a singer. As a songwriter he wrote for artists ...

(1947–1992), composer, singer *

Hector Berlioz Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer and conductor. His output includes orchestral works such as the ''Symphonie fantastique'' and ''Harold en Italie, Harold in Italy'' ...

(1803–1869), composer (originally buried in a less prominent plot in the same cemetery) * Léon Boëllmann (1862–1897), composer and organist *

Alexandre Boëly Alexandre Pierre-François Boëly (19 April 1785 – 27 December 1858) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and violist. Career Born in Versailles into a family of musicians, Boëly received his first music lessons from his father, Jean-Fr ...

(1785–1858), composer and organist * Mélanie "Mel" Bonis (1858–1937), composer * François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé (1739–1800), royalist general named in the French National Anthem, * Lili Boulanger (1893–1918), composer *

Nadia Boulanger Juliette Nadia Boulanger (; 16 September 188722 October 1979) was a French music teacher, conductor and composer. She taught many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century, and also performed occasionally as a pianist and organis ...

(1887–1979), composer * Georges Hilaire Bousquet (1846–1937), jurist, legal scholar *

Marcel Boussac Marcel Boussac (17 April 1889 – 21 March 1980) was a French entrepreneur best known for his ownership of the Maison Dior and one of the most successful thoroughbred race horse breeding farms in European history. Born in Châteauroux, Indre, ...

(1889–1980), entrepreneur * Giuseppina Bozzacchi, (1853–1870), ballerina *

Victor Brauner Victor Brauner (, also spelled Viktor Brauner; 15 June 1903 – 12 March 1966) was a Romanian painter and sculptor of the surrealism (art), surrealist movement. Early life He was born in Piatra Neamț, Romania, the son of a Jewish timber manufac ...

(1903–1966), painter *

Václav Brožík Václav Brožík (; 6 March 1851 – 15 April 1901) was a Czech painter who worked in the academic style. Life Brožík was born on 6 March 1851 in Třemošná, Bohemia, Austrian Empire (now the Czech Republic). He came from a poor family, ...

(1851–1901),

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painter * Alfred-Arthur Brunel de Neuville (1852–1941), painter * Myles Byrne (1780–1862), Irish revolutionary soldier

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* Moïse de Camondo (1860–1935), banker * Nissim de Camondo (1892–1917), banker, World War I pilot *

Aimée Campton Aimée Campton or Miss Campton (6 April 1882 – 21 November 1930) was a dancer, music hall artist, postcard beauty and a French actress of English origin. A silent film actress, she played the lead role in a series of French-made ''Maud'' film ...

(1882–1930), actress *

Pierre Cardin Pierre Cardin (born Pietro Costante Cardin; 2 July 1922 – 29 December 2020) was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer. He is known for what were his avant-garde style and Space Age designs. He preferred geometry, geometric shap ...

(1922–2020), Fashion Designer * Marie-Antoine Carême (1784–1833), famed inventor of classical cuisine *

Louis-Eugène Cavaignac Louis-Eugène Cavaignac (; 15 October 1802 – 28 October 1857) was a French general and politician who served as head of the executive power of France between June and December 1848, during the French Second Republic. Born in Paris to a promi ...

(1802–1857), politician * Fanny Cerrito (1817–1909), Italian ballerina *

Jean-Martin Charcot Jean-Martin Charcot (; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurology, neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on groundbreaking work about hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise A ...

(1825–1893), neurologist * Jacques Charon (1920–1975), actor *

Théodore Chassériau Théodore Chassériau (; ; September 20, 1819 – October 8, 1856) was a Dominican-born French Romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to A ...

(1819–1856), painter *

Henri-Georges Clouzot Henri-Georges Clouzot (; 20 November 1907 – 12 January 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed '' The Wages of Fear'' (1953) and '' Les Diabo ...

(1907–1977), director and screenwriter *

Véra Clouzot Véra Gibson-Amado, known professionally as Véra Clouzot, (30 December 1913 – 15 December 1960) was a Brazilian-French film actress and screenwriter. She is known for playing Linda in ''The Wages of Fear'' (1953), Christina Delassalle in ...

(1913–1960), actress

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Henri-Bernard Dabadie Henri-Bernard Dabadie (19 January 1797 – 20 May 1853) was a French baritone, particularly associated with Rossini and Daniel Auber, Auber roles. Life and career Born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Pau, Dabadie studied at the Paris Conservat ...

(1797–1853), operatic baritoneAllée Montmorency, concession no. 408/1853. See Tamvaco, Jean-Louis (2000). "Dabadie / Leroux es, pp. 919–921, in ''Les Cancans de l'Opéra: Chroniques de l'Académie Royale de Musique et du théâtre, à Paris sous les deux Restaurations''.

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. 1307 pages. . . * Zulmé Dabadie (1795–1877), operatic soprano *

Dalida Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (; 17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), professionally known as Dalida (, ; ), was an Italian naturalized French singer and actress. Leading an international career, Dalida has sold over 140 million records worldwide. Some ...

(1933–1987),

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

ian-born Italo-French singer and actress, singing

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. * Louis Antoine Debrauz de Saldapenna (1811–1871), Austrian writer and diplomat *

Edgar Degas Edgar Degas (, ; born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, ; 19 July 183427 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is e ...

(1834–1917), Impressionist painter, sculptor *

Léo Delibes Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (; 21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French Romantic music, Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and French opera, operas. His works include the ballets ''Coppélia'' (1870) and ''Sylvia (b ...

(1836–1891), composer of

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* Maria Deraismes (1828–1894), social reformer, feminist * Narcisse Virgilio Díaz (1808–1876), painter * William Didier-Pouget (1864–1959), artist painter *

Maxime Du Camp Maxime Du Camp (8 February 1822 – 9 February 1894) was a French writer and photographer. Biography Born in Paris, Du Camp was the son of a successful surgeon. After finishing college, he indulged in his strong desire for travel, thanks to ...

(1822–1894), author * Norbert Dufourcq (1904–1990), organist, musicologist, writer * Alexandre Dumas, ''fils'' (1824–1895), novelist, playwright * Marie Duplessis (1824–1847), courtesan, ''

The Lady of the Camellias ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (), sometimes called ''Camille'' in English, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas fils, Alexandre Dumas ''fils''. First published in 1848 and subsequently Theatrical adaptation, adapted by Dumas for the Drama, stage, the pl ...

'' * François Duprat (1941–1978), assassinated political radical

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* Renée Jeanne Falconetti (1892–1946), actress, notable for '' La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc''. *

Georges Feydeau Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in a ...

(1862–1921), playwright of ''

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Léon Foucault Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (, ; ; 18 September 1819 – 11 February 1868) was a French physicist best known for his demonstration of the Foucault pendulum, a device demonstrating the effect of Earth's rotation. He also made an early measuremen ...

(1819–1868), scientist *

Charles Fourier François Marie Charles Fourier (; ; 7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837) was a French philosopher, an influential early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of utopian socialism. Some of his views, held to be radical in his lifetime, have be ...

(1772–1837), utopian socialist * Christopher Fratin (1801–1864),

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sculptor * Carole Fredericks (1952–2001),

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singer

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France Gall Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018), known professionally as France Gall, was a French ''yé-yé'' singer. In 1965, at the age of 17, she won the Eurovision Song Contest 1965, tenth edition of the Eurov ...

(1947–2018), singer * Theophile Gautier (1811–1872), poet, novelist *

Jean-Léon Gérôme Jean-Léon Gérôme (; 11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academic painting, academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living art ...

(1824–1904), painter * Eugène Gigout (1844–1925), composer and organist * José Melchor Gomis (1791–1836), Spanish Romantic composer *

Edmond de Goncourt Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (; 26 May 182216 July 1896) was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. Biography Goncourt was born in Nancy. His parents, Marc-Pierre Huot ...

(1822–1896), author/publisher, brother of Jules (patron of the ''

Prix Goncourt The Prix Goncourt ( , "The Goncourt Prize") is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward of only 10 euros, but resul ...

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Jules de Goncourt Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (; 17 December 183020 June 1870) was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. Jules was born and died in Paris. His death at the age of 39 was at Auteuil of a stroke brought on by sy ...

(1830–1870), author/publisher, brother of Edmond and buried in the same grave. Also patron of the ''

'' * Amédée Gordini (1899–1979), Gordini sports car manufacturer * La Goulue (Louise Weber) (1866–1929),

Can-can The can-can (also spelled cancan as in the original French /kɑ̃kɑ̃/) is a high-energy, physically demanding dance that became a popular music-hall dance in the 1840s, continuing in popularity in French cabaret to this day. Originally dance ...

dancer (she was originally buried in the Cimetière de Pantin) *

Jean-Baptiste Greuze Jean-Baptiste Greuze (, 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting. Early life Greuze was born at Tournus, a market town in Burgundy. He is generally said to have formed his own ...

(1725–1805), artist * Béla Grünwald (1839–1891), Hungarian historian and politician *

Jules Guérin Jules Guérin (; 14 September 1860 – 10 February 1910) was a French journalist and anti-Semitic activist. He founded and led the Antisemitic League of France (), an organisation similar to the , and edited the French weekly (Paris, 1896–19 ...

(1860–1910), nationalist political radical * Lucien Guitry (1860–1925), actor *

Sacha Guitry Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre (aesthetic), boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French ac ...

(1885–1957), actor/director * Charles Gumery (1827–1871), sculptor

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* Fromental Halévy (1799–1862), composer *

Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; ; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was an outstanding poet, writer, and literary criticism, literary critic of 19th-century German Romanticism. He is best known outside Germany for his ...

(1797–1856), German poet *

Fanny Heldy Fanny Heldy (29 February 1888 – 13 December 1973) was a Belgian lyric soprano opera singer. Life Born Marguerite Virginie Emma Clémentine Deceuninck in Ath (some sources say Liège), Hainaut Province, Belgium, she graduated from the Royal Co ...

(1888–1973), Belgian soprano * Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792–1867), architect

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* François-André Isambert (1792–1857), lawyer, historian, and politician * Daniel Iffla (1825–1907), Jewish philanthropist and financier

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* Maurice Jaubert (1900–1940), composer, conductor * André Jolivet (1905–1974), composer *

Marcel Jouhandeau Marcel Jouhandeau (; 26 July 18887 April 1979) was a French writer. Biography Born in Guéret, Creuse, France, Marcel Jouhandeau grew up in a world of women presided over by his grandmother. Under the influence of a young woman from the Carmel of ...

(1888–1979), author *

Louis Jouvet Jules Eugène Louis Jouvet (; 24 December 1887 – 16 August 1951) was a French actor, theatre director and filmmaker. Early life Jouvet was born in Crozon. He had a Stuttering, stutter as a young man and originally trained as a pharmac ...

(1887–1951), actor * Anna Judic (1850–1911), actress, chanteuse *

Antoine-Henri Jomini Antoine-Henri Jomini (; 6 March 177922 March 1869) was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a General officer, general in First French Empire, French and later in Russian Empire, Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers o ...

(1779–1869), general, military author

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Friedrich Kalkbrenner Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner (7 November 1785 – 10 June 1849), also known as ''Frédéric Kalkbrenner'', was a pianist, composer, piano teacher and piano manufacturer. German by birth, Kalkbrenner studied at the Conservatoire de Paris ...

(1784–1849), pianist, composer * Miecislas Kamieński, a Polish soldier who was a volunteer in the French Army and was killed in the

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, mentioned because the statue by Jules Franceschi on his grave is well known * Julian Klemczyński, (1807 or 1810–1851?), pianist, composer * Marie-Pierre Kœnig (1898–1970),

Free French Free France () was a resistance government claiming to be the legitimate government of France following the dissolution of the Third French Republic, Third Republic during World War II. Led by General , Free France was established as a gover ...

Field Marshal * Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948–1989), playwright, director *

Joseph Kosma Joseph Kosma (22 October 19057 August 1969) was a Hungarian composer who immigrated to France. Biography Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Ákos. A maternal relative wa ...

(1905–1969), composer * Slavko Kopač (1913–1995), Croatian-French painter, sculptor and poet

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* Eugène Labiche (1815–1888), dramatist * Dominique Laffin (1952–1985), actress * Charles Lamoureux (1834–1899), violinist *

Jean Lannes Jean Lannes, 1st Duke of Montebello, Prince of Siewierz (; 10 April 1769 – 31 May 1809), was a French military commander and a Marshal of the Empire who served during both the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He was one of Napol ...

(1769–1809), Marshal of France (heart-burial only, the body is in the Pantheon) * Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836–1911), painter * Margaret Kelly Leibovici (1910–2004), "Miss Bluebell", Irish dancer * Frédérick Lemaître (1800–1876), actor * Pauline Leroux (1809–1891), dancer * Élisabeth Leseur (1866–1914), mystic *

José Yves Limantour José Yves Limantour Marquet (; 26 December 1854 – 26 August 1935) was a Mexican financier who served as secretary of Finance (Mexico), Secretary of the Finance of Mexico from 1893 until the fall of the Porfirio Díaz regime in 1911. One of t ...

(1854–1935) Mexican Secretary of Finance * Emma Livry (1842–1863), ballet dancer *

Édouard Lucas __NOTOC__ François Édouard Anatole Lucas (; 4 April 1842 – 3 October 1891) was a French mathematician. Lucas is known for his study of the Fibonacci sequence. The related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him. Biography Luc ...

(1842–1891), mathematician

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* Aimé Maillart (1817–1871), composer * Henri Meilhac (1830–1897), dramatist * Mary Marquet (1895–1979), actress * Victor Massé (1822–1884), composer *

Auguste de Montferrand Auguste de Montferrand (; ; January 23, 1786 – July 10, 1858) was a French classicist architect who worked primarily in Russia. His two best known works are the Saint Isaac's Cathedral and the Alexander Column in Saint Petersburg. Early life ...

(1786–1858), architect * José María Luis Mora (1794–1850), Mexican politician *

Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism ...

(1826–1898), symbolist painter *

Jeanne Moreau Jeanne Moreau (; 23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, director, and socialite. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. Mo ...

(1928–2017), actress * Aimé Morot (1850–1913), academic art painter *

Henri Murger Louis-Henri Murger (27 March 1822 – 28 January 1861), also known as Henri Murger and Henry Murger, was a French novelist and poet. He is chiefly distinguished as the author of the 1847-1849 book '' Scènes de la vie de bohème'' (''Scenes ...

(1822–1861), novelist * Musidora (1889–1957), (Jeanne Roques) actress/director/writer

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* Vaslav Nijinsky (1890–1950), ballet dancer * Adolphe Nourrit (1802–1839), tenor * Eugène Nyon (1812–1870), playwright and novelist * Alphonse de Neuville (1836–1885), painter whose funerary monument was realized by Francis de Saint-Vidal

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Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

(1819–1880), French composer of German descent *

Georges Ohnet Georges Ohnet (3 April 1848, in Paris – 5 May 1918) was a French novelist. Life and career Ohnet was educated at the Collège Sainte-Barbe and the Lycée Henri-IV, Lycée Napoléon. After the Franco-Prussian War he became editor of the magazi ...

(1848–1919), writer * Harriet Osborne O'Hagan (1830–1921), Irish portrait artist

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Théophile-Jules Pelouze Théophile-Jules Pelouze (also known as Jules Pelouze), ; 26 February 180731 May 1867) was a French chemist. Life He was born at Valognes, and died in Paris. His father, Edmond Pelouze, was an industrial chemist and the author of several tech ...

(1807–1867), chemist * Isaac Péreire (1806–1880), financier * Jacob Rodrigues Péreire (1715–1780), educator *

Francis Picabia Francis Picabia (: born Francis-Marie Martinez de Picabia; 22January 1879 – 30November 1953) was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typography, typographist closely associated with Dada. When consid ...

(1879–1953), painter * Alphonsine Plessis (1824–1847), ''

La Dame aux Camélias ''The Lady of the Camellias'' (), sometimes called ''Camille'' in English, is a novel by Alexandre Dumas ''fils''. First published in 1848 and subsequently adapted by Dumas for the stage, the play premiered at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in P ...

'' * Patrick Pons (1952–1980), motorcycle racer * Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (1829–1871), novelist * William Didier-Pouget (1864-1959), painter * Jean Le Poulain (1924–1988), actor * Francisque Poulbot (1879–1946), painter, illustrator * Olga Preobrajenska (1871–1962), ballet dancer (according to other sources, she is buried in the Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery)Arnold Lionel Haskell.
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* Juliette Récamier (1777–1849), socialite and woman of letters *

Suzanne Reichenberg Suzanne Reichenberg (stage name, Suzette; 7 September 1853 – 9 March 1924), Baroness of Bourgoing, was a French actress. She joined the Comédie-Française on August 1, 1867, and started on December 14, 1868. She was appointed its 294th member on ...

(1853–1924), actress *

Salomon Reinach Salomon Reinach (29 August 1858 – 4 November 1932) was a French archaeologist, religious historian and was a major figure in the Franco-Jewish establishment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was vice president of the ...

(1858–1932), archaeologist *

Ernest Renan Joseph Ernest Renan (; ; 27 February 18232 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote wo ...

(1823–1892), writer (buried in the Ary Scheffer grave) * Jacques Rigaut (1898–1929), poet *

Jacques Rivette Jacques Rivette (; 1 March 1928 – 29 January 2016) was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine '' Cahiers du Cinéma''. He made twenty-nine films, including '' L'Amour fo ...

(1928–2016), film director and film critic * Henri Rivière (1827–1883), naval officer, writer * Jean Rédélé (1922–2007), automotive pioneer, pilot and founder of the French automotive brand Alpine. *

Julie Rodde Marie–Julie Rodde (18 July 1818, Aubenas – 30 October 1900, Paris) was a French writer, poet and journalist. Biography Julie Rodde was born into familty of the economist, writer and journalist Jean-François Victor Rodde (1792–1835) an ...

(1818–1900), French writer, poet and journalist. * Hilda Roosevelt (1881–1965), opera singer, daughter of Cornelius Roosevelt (1847–1902) * Endre Rozsda (1913–1999), surrealist painter

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* Joseph Isidore Samson (1793–1871), actor and playwright * Henri Sauguet (1901–1989), composer * Adolphe Sax (1814–1894), musical instrument artisan (inventor of saxophone) * Ary Scheffer (1795–1858), painter * Cornélia Scheffer (1830–1899), sculptor and designer * Helen G. Scott (1915–1987), Truffaut / Hitchcock * Philippe Paul de Ségur, Count of Ségur (1780–1873), historian *

Claude Simon Claude Eugène Henri Simon (; 10 October 1913 – 6 July 2005) was a French novelist and recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Literature. Biography Claude Simon was born in Tananarive on the isle of Madagascar. His parents were French, an ...

(1913–2005), novelist *

Juliusz Słowacki Juliusz Słowacki (; ; ; 4 September 1809 – 3 April 1849) was a Polish Romantic poet. He is considered one of the " Three Bards" of Polish literature — a major figure in the Polish Romantic period, and the father of modern Polish drama. Hi ...

(1809–1849), Polish romantic poet * Harriet Smithson (1808–1854), Anglo-Irish actress, the first wife of Hector Berlioz, and the inspiration for his Symphonie fantastique *

Fernando Sor Fernando Sor (baptised 14 February 1778 – 10 July 1839) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the Classical period (music), late Classical era and Romantic music, early Romantic era. Best known for writing solo classical guitar mu ...

(1778–1839), guitarist * Alexandre Soumet (1788–1845), poet *

Stendhal Marie-Henri Beyle (; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (, , ), was a French writer. Best known for the novels ''Le Rouge et le Noir'' ('' The Red and the Black'', 1830) and ''La Chartreuse de Parme'' ('' T ...

(Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842), writer * Charles Henri Sanson (1739–1806), executioner of Louis XVI

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* Marie Taglioni (1804–1884), ballerina * Ludmilla Tchérina (1924–2004), dancer, actress and painter *

Ambroise Thomas Charles Louis Ambroise Thomas (; 5 August 1811 – 12 February 1896) was a French composer and teacher, best known for his operas ''Mignon'' (1866) and ''Hamlet (opera), Hamlet'' (1868). Born into a musical family, Thomas was a student at the C ...

(1811–1896), opera composer *

Armand Toussaint The French sculptor François Christophe Armand Toussaint was born in Paris on April 7, 1806, and died there on May 24, 1862. The son of a locksmith, Armand Toussaint entered the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, École des Beaux-Art ...

(1806–1862), sculptor * Jean-Pierre Travot (1767–1836), general *

Constant Troyon Constant Troyon (; August 28, 1810 – February 21, 1865) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. In the early part of his career, he painted mostly landscapes. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his ''métier'' as ...

(1810–1865), painter *

François Truffaut François Roland Truffaut ( , ; ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a ...

(1932–1984),

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filmmaker and director

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Horace Vernet Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (; 30 June 178917 January 1863) more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalist subjects. Biography Early career Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famo ...

(1789–1863), painter * Auguste Vestris (1760–1842), dancer * Gaétan Vestris (1729–1808), dancer *

Pauline Viardot Pauline Viardot (; 18 July 1821 – 18 May 1910) was a French dramatic mezzo-soprano, composer and pedagogue of Spanish descent. Born Michelle Ferdinande Pauline García,FitzLyon, p. 15, referring to the baptismal name. Thbirth recorddigitized a ...

(1821–1910), opera singer, composer *

Alfred de Vigny Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny (; 27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet and early French Romanticism, Romanticist. He also produced novels, plays, and translations of Shakespeare. Biography Vigny was born in Loches (a town to wh ...

(1797–1863), poet, playwright, novelist *

Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (; 7 October 1798 – 19 March 1875) was a French luthier, businessman, inventor and winner of many awards. He was one of the finest French luthiers of the 19th century and a key figure in the world of violin making. ...

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* René Waldeck-Rousseau (1846–1904), politician * Walenty Wańkowicz (1799–1842), painter * Georges-Fernand Widal (1862–1929), bacteriologist

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Émile Zola Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, ; ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of Naturalism (literature), naturalism, and an important contributor to ...

(1840–1902), author (original site, moved to the

Panthéon The Panthéon (, ), is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, Paris, Latin Quarter (Quartier latin), atop the , in the centre of the , which was named after it. The edifice was built between 1758 ...

in 1908). The Zola family grave is still there, with Émile's name on it.

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