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This is a list of cemeteries in France.
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Cimetière de Bagneux, Paris – burial place for
Jean Vigo,
Gribouille,
Alfred Jarry and others.
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Catacombs of Paris, millions of remains in caves and tunnels under the city of Paris.
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Cimetière de Batignolles, Paris, resting place of France's famous sons
André Breton and
Paul-Marie Verlaine, among others.
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Cimetière des Gonards,
Versailles, burial place for
Edith Wharton,
Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte and others.
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Cimetière de La Guillotière,
Lyon
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Cimetière de Loyasse,
Lyon
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Grand Jas Cemetery,
Cannes – buried here are
Lily Pons,
Peter Carl Fabergé,
Martine Carol and other celebrities
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Cimetière de Levallois-Perret, Paris, resting place of
Maurice Ravel,
Louise Michel (The Red Virgin) and
Gustave Eiffel
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Les Invalides, Paris – war heroes including
Napoleon
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Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris – resting place of
Edgar Degas,
Heinrich Heine,
Georges Feydeau, the
Cancan dancer, known as
La Goulue (Louise Weber) among other artists (notably
Dalida and
Vaslav Nijinsky) and writers (like
Alexandre Dumas, fils). But also many others.
Émile Zola was initially buried here, but his remains were later moved to the
Panthéon. His gravestone can still be seen here, however.
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Cimetière du Montparnasse, Paris – serves the great artistic quarter of
Montparnasse, including the graves of
Charles Baudelaire,
Eugène Ionesco,
Samuel Beckett,
Jean-Paul Sartre,
Jean Seberg,
Serge Gainsbourg and
Man Ray.
Pierre Laval and
Porfirio Díaz are also buried here among many, many others.
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Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery – resting place of
Anatole France among others.
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Panthéon, Paris – France's most honored, including
Voltaire,
Jean-Jacques Rousseau and
Émile Zola.
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Cimetière de Pantin in Paris is the burial site of the singer
Damia, and other notables.
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Cimetière de Passy, Paris –
Claude Debussy,
Édouard Manet and many others.
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Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris – resting place of famous persons such as
Colette,
Baron Georges Haussmann,
Eugène Delacroix,
Oscar Wilde,
Jim Morrison,
Molière,
Maurice Merleau-Ponty,
Gertrude Stein,
Édith Piaf,
Marcel Proust and
Frédéric Chopin. Many French
Holocaust victims (and their camps) are commemorated there.
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Saint Denis Basilica, Paris – burial site for French Royalty.
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Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris – where, on 24 May 1430,
Joan of Arc
[1] was told to recant or face
summary execution. Some of those buried here are the painters
Suzanne Valadon,
Jules Pascin, and tennis star
Suzanne Lenglen.
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Saint Remi Basilica,
Reims,
Champagne-Ardenne, France
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Cimetière Saint-Vincent, a small cemetery in the
Montmartre Quarter of Paris contains the graves of such notables as
Arthur Honegger,
Marcel Carné,
Maurice Utrillo,
Eugène Boudin and others.
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Saint Roch Cemetery,
Grenoble, painters, sculptors and mayors.
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Besancon (St. Claude) Communal Cemetery,
Doubs.
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Protestant Cemetery, Bordeaux - is a multinational Protestant cemetery in
Bordeaux.
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Protestant Cemetery, Montpellier - is the oldest cemetery in continuous use in
Montpellier.
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