List of burials at Montparnasse Cemetery explained

Among those interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris are:

A

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

B

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
Michel Bréal (1832–1915), linguist, coiner of "semantics," inventor of the marathon
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

C

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.^[1]
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), Argentine writer
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

D

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

E

Émile Egger (1813–1885), philologist
Robert Enrico (1931–2001), film director
Antoine Étex (1808–1888), sculptor
Emil Cioran (1911-1995), filosof,scriitor

F

Henri Fantin-Latour (1836–1904), artist
Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947), poet and essayist
Paul Foucher (1810–1875), dramatist and journalist
César Franck (1822–1890), composer and organist
Othon Friesz (1879–1949), painter
Carlos Fuentes (1928–2012), Mexican writer

G

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

H

Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette (1769–1834), mathematician
Clara Haskil (1895–1960), Romanian pianist
Swan Hennessy (1866–1929), Irish-American composer, and his son Patrice Hennessy (1910–1973), French man of letters
Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814–1886), publisher and literary editor
Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741–1828), famous sculptor of notable men
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848–1907), author

I

Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931), composer
Eugène Ionesco (1909–1994), Romanian playwright
Jean-Robert Ipoustéguy (1920–2006), French sculptor
Joris Ivens (1898–1989), Dutch filmmaker

J

Jean Bernard Jauréguiberry (1815–1887), admiral and statesman
Joëlle (1953–1982), American-born French singer
Geneviève Joy (1919–2009), French classical and modernist pianist

K

Gustave Kahn, (1859–1936), poet and art critic
Joseph Kessel (1898–1979), writer
Kiki (1901–1953), singer, actress, painter, "Queen of Montparnasse" (although she was probably buried in Thiais)
Adamantios Korais (1748–1833), Greek writer and philosopher
Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek writer and philosopher

L

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.^[2]
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

M

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

N

Philippe Noiret (1930–2006), actor
Max Nordau (1849–1923), Zionist leader, physician, author

O

Mathieu Orfila (1787–1853), toxicologist, chemist
Gérard Oury (1919–2006), director

P

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

Q

Valérie Quennessen (1957–1989), theatre and film actress
Edgar Quinet (1803–1875), historian

R

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

S

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

T

Boris Taslitzky (1911–2005), painter
Augustin Thierry (1795–1856), historian
Roland Topor (1938–1997), writer, illustrator
Henri Troyat (1911–2007), author
Tristan Tzara (1896–1963), Romanian Dadaist poet and essayist

U

Stanisław Ulam (1909–1984), Polish mathematician, with his wife Françoise Aron Ulam.

V

Carlos Valenti (1888–1912), painter
César Vallejo (1892–1938), Peruvian poet
Agnès Varda (1928–2019), filmmaker
Jacques Vergès (1925–2013), lawyer
Louis Veuillot (1813–1883), journalist
Paul Vidal de la Blache (1845–1918), geographer
Louis Vierne (1870–1937), composer, organist
Andrée Viollis (1870–1950), journalist and writer

W

Henri-Alexandre Wallon (1812–1904), historian, statesman
Adolphe Willette (1857–1926), painter
Bronisława Wieniawa-Długoszowska (1886–1953), buried under the name 'Jeanne-Liliane Lalande'. She spied for French military intelligence during the Bolshevik revolution.
Georges Wolinski (1934–2015) Political cartoonist; writer; assassinated at Charlie Hebdo January 7, 2015

Z

Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967), Russian-born sculptor and artist
Sabine Zlatin (1907–1996), Polish-born humanitarian who hid Jewish children during the Holocaust

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Notes and References

News: Demonpion. Denis. La vie mondaine des collabos. August 2, 2016. Le Point. May 31, 2002. https://web.archive.org/web/20180502064827/http://www.lepoint.fr/actualites-politique/2007-01-19/la-vie-mondaine-des-collabos/917/0/45797. May 2, 2018. dead.
News: Laval's Body Taken To Family Mausoleum. August 2, 2016. Lubbock Morning Avalanche. Lubbock, Texas. November 16, 1945. 3. Newspapers.com. registration . 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..