Cimetière Saint-Vincent

Cimetière Saint-Vincent - The Cemetery of Saint Vincent at 6, rue Lucien-Gaulard in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France was opened on January 5, 1831. It was Montmartre’s second cemetery, built after the Cimetière du Calvaire had been filled.

A small cemetery with just over 900 graves, a few of its best known residents are:

• Marcel Aymé (1902-1967), writer
• Harry Baur (1880-1943), actor
• Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) painter
• Marcel Carné (1906-1996), film director
• Jules Chéret (1836-1932), printmaker
• Roland Dorgeles (1885-1973), writer
• Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), composer
• Désiré Inghelbrecht (1880-1965), composer and orchestra leader
• Gen Paul (1895-1975), painter
• Paul Sédir (Yvon Le Loup), (1871-1926), writer, philosopher
• Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923) painter
• Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), painter

See also: List of other famous cemeteries