The Saint-Pierre Cemetery (French: "") is a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...

. It is home to the burials of many renowned painters and sculptors.

Location

It is located on the ''Avenue Des Déportés de la Résistance Aixoise'' in Aix-en-Provence.Google Maps
/ref> It is opposite the ''Stade Georges Carcassonne'', a sports stadium.

History

It was established in 1824.
Centre Darius Milhaud: Cimetière Saint Pierre
/ref> It was built upon two former private, adjacacent cemeteries: a Jewish one and a Protestant one. It spans seven

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Notable burials

* Jean Amado (1922–1995), sculptor. * Henri Brémond (1865–1933), Jesuit author *

Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( , , ; ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French Post-Impressionism, Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation, influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century a ...

(1839–1906), painter.Atelier Cézanne
* Jean-Antoine Constantin (1744–1844), painter * Achille Empéraire (1829–1898), painter * Hippolyte Ferrat (1822–1882), sculptor * Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin (1779–1841), painter * Konstanty Gaszyński (1809-1866) - Polish romantic poet, insurgent * Jean-Baptiste Gaut (1819–1891), author * Louis Gautier (1855–1947), painter *

René Génin René Génin (25 January 1890 – 24 October 1967) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1931 and 1965. Selected filmography * ''Vertigo'' (1935) * '' The Mutiny of the Elsinore'' (1936) * '' The Bri ...

(1890–1967), actor *

Louise Germain Louise Germain (née Louise Richier; 1874 – 1939) was a French painter. Biography Richier was born in 1874, in Gap, Hautes-Alpes, but lived much of her childhood and adolescence in Algeria, returning to France by the time she was twenty. By ...

(1874–1939), painter * Victor Leydet (1845–1908), politician *

François Mignet François Auguste Marie Mignet (, 8 May 1796 – 24 March 1884) was a French journalist and historian of the French Revolution. Biography He was born in Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), France. His father was a locksmith from the Vendé ...

(1796–1884), historian *

Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (, ; 4 September 1892 – 22 June 1974) was a French composer, conductor, and teacher. He was a member of Les Six—also known as ''The Group of Six''—and one of the most prolific composers of the 20th century. His composition ...

(1892–1974), composer. * Sextius Alexandre François de Miollis (1759–1828), military general * Agricol Moureau (1766–1842),

Sans-culotte The (; ) were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th-century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the . The word , which is o ...

Jean Murat Jean Murat (13 July 1888 in Périgueux – 5 January 1968 in Aix-en-Provence) was a French actor. He was married to the French actress Annabella. He was one of the surviving passengers of the August 1923 Air Union Farman Goliath crash. Selected ...

(1888–1968), comedian * Barthélémy Niollon (1849–1927), painter *

Joseph Ravaisou Joseph Ravaisou (11 November 1865 – 22 December 1925) was a French landscape painter. Ravaisou was born on 11 November 1865, in Bandol, Var. In 1878, he moved to Aix-en-Provence to work as a school teacher, and subsequently became a mus ...

(1865–1925), painter *

John Rewald John Rewald (May 12, 1912 – February 2, 1994) was an American academic, author and art historian. He was known as a scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th cen ...

(1912–1994). * Henri Émilien Rousseau (1875–1933), painter * Philippe Solari (1840–1906), sculptor * François Vidal (1832–1911),

Félibrige The ''Félibrige'' (; in classical Occitan, in Mistralian spelling, ) is a literary and cultural association founded in 1854 by Frédéric Mistral and other Provençal writers to defend and promote the Occitan language (also called the ) and ...

activist, poet *

Joseph Villevieille Joseph Villevieille (6 August 1829 – 11 February 1916) was a French painter. Early life Joseph Villevieille was born on 6 August 1829 in Aix-en-Provence. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Career Villevieille taught pain ...

(1829–1916), painter * François Zola (1796–1847), dam-builder and father of

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 ...

References

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