Saint-Ouen Cemetery Explained

The Saint-Ouen Cemetery (French: Cimetière Parisien de Saint-Ouen) is located just north of Montmartre at Saint-Ouen, near Paris. The cemetery consists of two parts. The first, located on Rue Adrien Lesesne opened in 1860 and the second at 2 Avenue Michelet was opened on 1 September 1872.

Notable burials

• Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer
• Amer Alwan (1957–2023), film director and actor^[1]
• Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962), actress
• Mireille Balin (1909–1968), film actress
• Roland Charmy (1908–1987), violinist, husband of harpist Lily Laskine
• Carmen Damedoz, née Marie Élise Provost (1819–1964), artists model, dancer and aviator
• Eugène Godard (1827–1890), aeronaut
• Lily Laskine (1893–1988), harpist
• Mona Goya (1909–1961), actress
• Suzanne Lenglen (1899–1938), tennis champion
• Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
• Jules Pascin (1885–1930), artist (later re-interred)
• Henri Quittard (1864–1919), composer, musicologist
• Émile-Alexandre Taskin, (1853–1897), opera singer
• Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter

The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Marines officer of World War I.^[2]

External links

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Amer Alwan, Iraqi Director of ‘Zaman, the Man From the Reeds,’ Dies at 66. Nick. Vivarelli. Variety. 14 July 2023. 14 July 2023.
2. https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/258329/J%20K%20STRICK/ CWGC casualty record