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Among those interred at the
Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris are:
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Henri Alekan (1909–2001), cinematographer
Alexander Alekhine (1892–1946), Russian-born
chess world champion
Grace Alekhine (1876–1956), artist and chess master
Michèle Arnaud (1919–1998), singer
Henry Aron (1842–1885), journalist and political essayist
Raymond Aron (1905–1983), philosopher, sociologist and political scientist
Jean-Michel Atlan (1913–1960), poet and painter
Tina Aumont (1946–2006), actress, daughter of
Jean-Pierre Aumont and
Maria Montez
Georges Auric (1899–1983), composer, member of
Les Six
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Tomb of
Charles Baudelaire .
Charles Baudelaire monument.
Tomb of
Kate Barry and
Jane Birkin
Shapour Bakhtiar (1914–1991), last prime minister of the
constitutional monarchy in Iran
César Baldaccini (1921–1988), sculptor
Théodore de Banville (1823–1891), poet, writer
Frédéric Bartholdi (1834–1904), sculptor of the
Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World )
Maryse Bastié (1898–1952), pioneer aviator
Pierre Batcheff (1901–1932), actor
Jane Bathori (1877–1970), opera singer
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), poet
Jean Baudrillard (1929–2007), French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator, and photographer
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), feminist philosopher and author
Jacques Becker (1906–1960), filmmaker
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989), Irish author, playwright and poet
Eugène Belgrand (1810–1878), civil engineer
Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021), actor
Paul Belmondo (1898–1982), French sculptor
Jean Béraud (1849–1935), painter
Emmanuel Berl (1892–1976), writer
Aloysius Bertrand (1807–1841), poet
Marcel Alexandre Bertrand (1847–1907), geologist, one of the founders of modern tectonics
Jean-Marie Beurel (1813–1872), catholic priest
Louis Gustave Binger (1856–1936), explorer
Jane Birkin (1946–2023), English-French actress and singer
Lucien Bodard (1914–1998), journalist
Marc Boegner (1881–1970), theologist and academician
Jean-Marie Bonnassieux (1810–1892), sculptor
Aristide Boucicaut (1810–1877), entrepreneur and creator of
Le Bon Marché chain of department stores
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), artist (painter in
realist style)
Antoine Jacques Claude Joseph, comte Boulay de la Meurthe (1761–1840), statesman
Antoine Bourdelle (1861–1921), sculptor and teacher
Paul Bourget (1852–1935), writer
Marcel Bozzuffi (1928–1988), actor
Gérard Brach (1927–2006), screenwriter
Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957), Romanian sculptor
Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899–1984), photographer
Paul Broca (1824–1880), physician and anatomist
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817–1894), physician
Jean Bruller (1902–1991), author who wrote under the nom de plume of Vercors
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Julio Cortázar 's grave.
René Capitant (1901–1970), lawyer and statesman
Roger Caillois (1913–1978), author
Jean Carmet (1920–1994), actor
Isabelle Caro (1982–2010), model
Eugène Carrière (1849–1906),
Symbolist painter
Rene Cassin (1887–1976), jurist, Nobel Laureate. His remains were later transferred to the
Panthéon .
Sergio de Castro (artist) (1922–2012), Argentinian painter, musician and poet
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997),
Greek philosopher with French citizenship
Aristide Cavaillé-Coll (1811–1899),
organ builder
Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894), composer
René de Chambrun (1906–2002), lawyer, businessman.
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Honoré Champion (1846–1913), publisher
Claude François Chauveau-Lagarde (1756–1841), lawyer, defender of Marie-Antoinette
Marie-Dominique Chenu (1895–1990), Catholic theologian
Jacques Chirac (1932–2019), politician,
Prime Minister of France ,
Mayor of Paris ,
President of France ,
Co-Prince of Andorra
Emil Cioran (1911–1995), Romanian philosopher
André Citroën (1878–1935), founded France's
Citroën automobile factory
Antoni Clavé (1913–2005), artist
Yves Congar (1904–1995), Catholic theologian
François Coppée (1842–1908), poet and novelist
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (1792–1843), mathematician
Margaret Cossaceanu -Lavrillier (1893–1980), sculptor
Julio Cortázar (1914–1984),
Argentinian author
Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801–1877), economist
Maurice Couve de Murville (1907–1999), former
Prime Minister of France
Bruno Cremer (1929–2010), actor
Adolphe Crémieux (1796–1880), lawyer and statesman
Charles Cros (1842–1888), poet and inventor
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Tomb of Porfirio Díaz at
Montparnasse Cemetery , Paris
Jules Dalou (1838–1902), sculptor
Mireille Darc (1938–2017), model and actress
Gabriel Davioud (1824–1881), architect
Pierre David-Weill (1900–1975), banker, Chairman of
Lazard Frères
Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989), lover and, later, wife of
Samuel Beckett
Jos De Cock (1934–2010), Belgian-French painter, watercolorist, etcher and sculptor and, later, wife of
Pierre Restany
Jacques Demy (1931–1990), film director
Édouard Deperthes (1833–1898), architect
Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), former
President of France
Robert Desnos (1900–1945),
Surrealist poet
Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915), longest serving Mexican President, Dictator, General
Marie Dorval (1798–1849), actress
Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the
Dreyfus affair )
Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of
Venus de Milo
Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), author and movie director
Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), sociologist
Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013), composer
Roland Dyens (1955–2016), guitarist and composer
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Serge Gainsbourg (1928–1991), singer and composer
Évariste Galois (1811–1832), mathematician and revolutionary
Charles Garnier (1825–1898), designed the original
Paris Opera House for
Napoleon III
Henry Gauthier-Villars (1859–1931), writer and first husband of
Colette
François Gérard (1770–1837), artist
Jean Giraud (1938–2012), illustrator, comic artist, also known as Moebius
Alexandre Guilmant (1837–1911), organist and composer
Mavis Gallant (1922–2014), author
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Grave of
Urbain Le Verrier
Bernard Lacoste (1931–2006), president of
Lacoste apparel company, son of
René Lacoste
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), naturalist and zoologist (unearthed in 1834, lost body)
Paul-Gilbert Langevin (1933–1986), musicologist
Henri Langlois (1914–1977), film preservationist
Pierre Larousse (1817–1875), author of encyclopedia
Larousse Gastronomique
Henri Laurens (1885–1954), sculptor, engraver
Pierre Laval (1883–1945), Prime Minister.
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Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), physician, parasitologist
Maurice Leblanc (1864–1941), creator of
Arsène Lupin , novelist
Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), poet
Alexandre Lenoir (1761–1839), archaeologist
Philippe Léotard (1940–2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer
Urbain Le Verrier (1811–1877), astronomer and mathematician
André Lhote (1885–1962), painter and sculptor
Jacques Lisfranc (1790–1847), gynecologist and surgeon
Émile Littré (1801–1881) lexicographer, philosopher
Baltasar Lobo (1910–1993), Spanish sculptor
Sylvia Lopez (1931–1959), actress
Herbert Lottman (1927–2014), American biographer
Louis Loucheur (1872–1931), statesman
Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925), poet, romance novelist
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Ambrose Dudley Mann (1801–1889), Commissioner of the Confederate States of America for Belgium and the Vatican
René Maran (1887–1960), intellectual, author
Chris Marker (1921–2012), filmmaker, writer, photographer
Gaston Maspero (1846–1916), Egyptologist
Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), author
Rosita Mauri (1849–1923), principal ballerina at the Paris Opera
Claude Mauriac (1914–1996), author
René Mayer (1895–1972), former
Prime Minister of France
Catulle Mendès (1841–1909), poet, man of letters
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868), actress, poet
Ricardo Menon (1952–1989), artist, assistant and friend of
Niki de Saint Phalle (who designed the tomb:
Chat de Ricardo , one of the most notable sculptures in the cemetery).
André Meyer (1898–1979), French/American financier
Charles-Joseph Minard (1781–1870), French data visualization pioneer
Mireille (1906–1996), singer, composer
Eliane Montel (1898–1992), physicist and
Paul Langevin 's partner
Maria Montez (1912–1951), actress
Vincent de Moro-Giafferi (1878–1956), lawyer and statesman
Michèle Morgan (1920–2016), actress
Jean Mounet-Sully (1841–1916), actor
Philippe Muray (1945–2006), essayist and novelist
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Viktor Yushchenko at the grave of
Symon Petliura
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Grave of
François Pouqueville
Pan Yuliang (1895–1977), Chinese painter
Jean-Claude Pascal (1927–1992), singer and actor
Adolphe Pégoud (1889–1915), aviator
Auguste Perret (1874–1954), architect
Bénédicte Pesle (1927–2018), arts patron
Symon Petliura (1879–1926),
Ukrainian leader
Maurice Pialat (1925–2003), film director
Pierre Piérade (1884–1937), comedian, music hall performer and actor
Charles Pigeon (1838–1915), engineer, inventor and manufacturer
Jules Henri Poincaré , (1854–1912), mathematician and physicist
Jean Poiret (1926–1992), actor, film director
Nicos Poulantzas (1936–1979), sociologist
François Charles Henri Laurent Pouqueville (1770–1838), diplomat, writer, historian, archaeologist, physician
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon , (1809–1865), philosopher and statesman
Visarion Puiu (1879–1964), Romanian metropolitan bishop
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Grave of
Edgar Quinet
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Tania Rachevskaia (????–1910), a Russian medical student (and allegedly an anarchist). Her grave is famous because it is adorned with
The Kiss by
Constantin Brâncuși
Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804–1860), painter
Jean-Pierre Rampal (1922–2000), flautist
Fanny Raoul (1771–1833), feminist writer, journalist, philosopher and essayist
Man Ray (1890–1976), American-born
Dada and
Surrealist artist and photographer, with his wife
Juliet
Serge Reggiani (1922–2004), singer, actor
Jean-Marc Reiser (1941–1983), comic artist
Rosalie Rendu (1786–1856), daughter of charity
Pierre Restany (1930–2003),
art critic
Paul Reynaud (1878–1966), lawyer and statesman
Moune de Rivel (1918-2014), singer-songwriter, musician and actress
Yves Robert (1920–2002), actor, director
Yves Rocard (1903–1992), physicist
Éric Rohmer (1920–2010), film director
Nicolae Rosetti-Bălănescu (1827–1884), Romanian politician
Frédéric Rossif (1922–1990), filmmaker
Gustave Roussy (1874–1948), Swiss-born neuropathologist and oncologist
François Rude (1784–1855), sculptor
Julio Ruelas (1870–1907), Mexican painter
Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803–1877), German inventor
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Grave of
Jean-Paul Sartre and
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean Sablon (1906–1994), singer
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804–1869), literary critic, author
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
Jules Sandeau (1811–1883), novelist
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French philosopher & novelist
Claude Sautet (1924–2000), film director
Georges Schehadé (1905–1989), Lebanese poet and playwright
Pierre Schoendoerffer (1928-2012), writer and filmmaker
Jean Seberg (1938–1979), American actress and civil rights activist
Pierre Seghers (1906–1987), poet and editor
Delphine Seyrig (1932–1990), actress
Susan Sontag (1933–2004), American author and philosopher
Jesús Rafael Soto (1923–2005), Venezuelan kinetic sculptor and painter
Chaïm Soutine (1893–1943), painter of the
School of Paris
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Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967), Russian-born sculptor and artist
Sabine Zlatin (1907–1996), Polish-born humanitarian who hid Jewish children during the Holocaust
References
^ Demonpion, Denis (May 31, 2002).
"La vie mondaine des collabos" . Le Point . Archived from
the original on May 2, 2018. Retrieved August 2, 2016 .
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"Laval's Body Taken To Family Mausoleum" . Lubbock Morning Avalanche . Lubbock, Texas. November 16, 1945. p. 3. Retrieved August 2, 2016 – via
Newspapers.com . The bullet-pierced body of Pierre Laval was moved today to the mausoleum of the Chambrun family in Montparnasse cemetery from an unmarked grave in Thiais cemetery, where it had lain since the former premier was executed as a traitor a month ago.
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