CIMETIÈRE DE MONTMARTRE

Specialty Definition: Cimetière de Montmartre

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Cimetière de Montmartre, a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, Paris, France.

Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786 on the fringe of Les Halles food market, on the grounds that it presented a health hazard. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century: Montmartre in the north, Le Cimetière Père Lachaise in the east, Cimetière de Passy in the west and Cimetiere de Montparnasse in the south.

Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of rue Caulaincourt in place Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on avenue Rachel under rue Caulaincourt. The cemetery epitomizes the artsy, quixotic, gentle, almost whimsical Paris that every romantic visitor secretly cherishes.

A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area. A few of the famous buried in the Montmartre Cemetery are:

André-Marie Ampère - (Physicist - electrical unit ampere named for him.)
Hector Berlioz - (Composer)
Dalida - singer/actress
Edgar Degas - (Painter, sculptor)
Leo Delibes - composer
Alexandre Dumas, fils - novelist, playwright
Georges Feydeau - playwright
Léon Foucault - scientist
Pauline Garcia-Viardot - opera singer, composer
Theophile Gautier - poet, novelist
Edmond de Goncourt (Author-Publisher) Prix Goncourt
Jean-Baptiste Greuze - painter
Sacha Guitry - actor/director
Heinrich Heine - poet
Louis Jouvet - actor
Marie Pierre Koenig, Free French Field-Marshal
Eugène Labiche - writer
Frédérick Lemaître - actor
Auguste de Montferrand - architect
Gustave Moreau - (Painter)
Vaslav Nijinsky - (Dancer)
Jacques Offenbach - composer
Francisque Poulbot - painter
Adolphe Sax - musicial instrument maker
Stendhal - writer
François Truffaut - (Film maker)
Horace Vernet - painter
Alfred de Vigny - poet, playwright, novelist
Emile Zola - author (Moved to The Panthéon in 1908)

See also: List of other famous cemeteries

External link

For a more comprehensive list see: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/famousSearch.cgi?mode=cemetery&FScemeteryid=639013

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cimeti�re de Montmartre."

Alternative Orthography: CIMETIÈRE DE MONTMARTRE

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