Montmartre Cemetery
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The Montmartre cemetery or Northern Cemetery is located west to the Butte, near the Clichy square. Opened sine 1825, January 1st, the cemetery is built over an old mine.
The cemetery has an area of 11 hectare and more than 700 trees. In the XVIII century the place was occupied by a gypsum quarry. During the French revolution the place was used to deposit the victim’s bodies. When the Innocent Cemetery had to close due to sanitary dangers and in consequence so the other cemeteries had to, the bodies of the Paris citizens were also deposited there. A one hectare land was bought in order to solve the situation and properly bury Parisians. Of course rapidly the extension was full again. In 1825 the cemetery was enlarged as it is today.
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Some of the celebrities are buried in this cemetery:
Lili Boulanger, Marcel Boussac, Václav Broík, Alfred Arthur Brunel de Neuville, Moïse de Camondo, Adolphe Adam, Charles-Valentin Alkan, André-Marie Ampère, Michel Berger, Hector Berlioz, Johann Maria Farina, Georges Feydeau, Léon Foucault, Carole Fredericks, Pauline Garcia-Viardot, Nissim de Camondo, Antoine Carême, Fanny CerritoFromental Halévy, Heinrich Heine, Fanny Heldy, Jacques Ignace Hittorff, Dalida, Edgar Degas, Léo Delibes, Maria Deraismes, Narcisse Virgilio Diaz, Maxime Du Camp, André Jolivet, Marcel Jouhandeau, Théodore Chassériau, Alexandre Dumas, Théophile Gautier, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt, Amédée Gordini, La Goulue (Louise Weber), Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Sacha Guitry, Louis Jouvet, Anna Judic, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Marie Pierre Koenig, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Joseph Kosma, Eugène Labiche, Dominique Laffin, Charles Lamoureux, Jean Lannes, Pierre Leonard Laurescisoue, Frédérick Lemaître, Aimé Maillart, Henri Meilhac, Mary Marquet, Victor Massé, Auguste de Montferrand, Gustave Moreau, Henri Murger, Musidora (Jeanne Roques), Vaslav Nijinsky, Jacques Offenbach, Georges Ohnet, Théophile-Jules Pelouze, Emile Péreire, Isaac Péreire, Jacob Rodrigues Péreire, Alphonsine Plessis, Patrick Pons, Salomon Reinach, Ernest Renan, Henri Sauguet, Adolphe Sax, Ary Scheffer, Philippe Paul, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail, Jean Le Poulain, Francisque Poulbot, Julie Récamier, comte de Ségur, Juliusz Słowacki, Alexandre Soumet, Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle), Marie Taglioni, Ambroise Thomas, Constant Troyon, François Truffaut, Pierre-Jean Vaillard, Horace Vernet, Auguste Vestris, Gaëtan Vestris, Alfred de Vigny, Jean Baptiste Vuillaume, René Waldeck-Rousseau, Georges Fernand Isidore Nidal, Émile Zola.
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The cemetery is opened from Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 18:00pm. On Saturdays from 8:00am to 18:00pm and on Sundays from 9:00am to 18:00pm.
Address:
20, avenue Rachel 75018 París
Tel: +(33) 01 53 42 36 30
Metro: Blanche o Place de Clichy
Bus: 95, 80, 74, 54, 30 |
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