Cimetière parisien de Bagneux

Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
Cimetière parisien de Bagneux
	Entrance of the Cimetière Parisien de Bagneux
Details
Established	1886
Location	Bagneux
Country	France
Coordinates	48°48′22″N 2°18′32″E / 48.806°N 2.309°E
Type	Public (non-denominational)
Style	Rural
Owned by	Mairie de Paris
Size	61.5 hectares (152 acres)
No. of graves	83,000+
Find a Grave	Cimetière parisien de Bagneux

Cimetière parisien de Bagneux is one of the three Parisien cemeteries extra muros, located in Bagneux. The cemetery has a large Jewish section (many of the divisions have exclusively Jewish graves) and is sometimes known as the Jewish cemetery.^[1]

History

Before the site became a cemetery, it was the scene of heavy fighting in May 1871, in the war between the Versailles and the Fédérés.

The cemetery was opened on 15 November 1886 and is one of the three Parisien Cemeteries extra muros, the others being Cimetière Parisien de Thiais (opened in 1929) and Cimetière Parisien de Pantin. It was opened at the same time as Pantin, (which is northeast of Paris). Both have similar entrances. Bagneux is the smallest of the three cemeteries serving Paris, but the most active.

Notes

The cemetery is still open and there are about 10 burials a day. The cemetery is divided into 115 divisions. It is estimated that there are around 83,000 graves.

The cemetery was the burial place of Oscar Wilde until his remains were moved to Père Lachaise Cemetery^[2] in Paris. Similarly, Jeanne Hébuterne, the model and artist who was Amedeo Modigliani's lover and mother of his only child, was originally buried here. Despondent over his death, Jeanne Hébuterne committed suicide and her family interred her at Cimetière de Bagneux until finally relenting and allowing her remains to be transferred to the Père Lachaise Cemetery in 1930 to rest beside Modigliani.^[3]

There are nearly 5,500 trees (about 20 different species). It is home to many birds (35 different species have already been counted) and squirrels.

Notable burials

Monuments

There are monuments for:

Jews who died in the Second World War (division 1)
The Warsaw Ghetto (division 115)
The victims of concentration camps and those who died as a result of "Nazi barbarism". There are many of these monuments in the Jewish divisions.

Military graves

The cemetery has a number of military sections.

There are two divisions dedicated to the French Military who died in the First and Second World War.

Division 19 contains two sections dedicated to British Commonwealth dead and which are maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. These plots contain around 35 Commonwealth service war graves of the First World War (mostly British soldiers who died in 1914), and a few from the Second.^[4] A notable example was John Wilson (1889–1914), who was a peacetime Scottish professional footballer and died of wounds.^[5]^[6]

Individual burials

Albert Rubin (1887–1956), French/Jewish Painter & Sculptor.
Yury Annenkov (1889–1974), Russian & French artist known for his book illustrations and portraits.
Junie Astor (1911–1967), singer
Eugène Atget (1857–1927), photographer
Barbara (Monique Serf) (1930–1997), singer
Claude Berri (1934–2009), French actor, writer, producer, director, and distributor
María Blanchard (1881–1932), Spanish cubist painter
Frida Boccara, (1940–1996), singer
Lucienne Boyer (1903–1983), singer
Martial Brigouleix (1903–1943), military hero
Charles Bruneau (1883–1969) linguist and philologist
Francis Carco (1886–1958), writer
Demetre Chiparus (1886–1947), Romanian sculptor
Marcel Dalio (1900–1983), actor
Bella Darvi (1928–1971), French/Polish actress
Léon Deubel (1879–1913), poet
Jean-Jacques Gautier (1908–1986), author
Michèle Girardon (1938–1975), French film actress
Maadi Gobrait (1904–1980), French Polynesian nurse and resistance fighter
Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté) (1941–1968), singer
Marcelle Henry (1895–1945), one of only six women who were awarded the Compagnon de la Libération
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), writer
Jules Laforgue (1860–1887), poet
Rose Laurens (1953–2018), singer
André Leducq (1904–1980), cyclist
Helene Rytmann (1908–1980), wife of Louis Althusser, a resistance fighter during the second world war, and French communist activist
Corinne Luchaire (1921–1950), actress
Georges Madon (1892–1924), French World War I ace
Jacqueline Maillan (1923–1992), actress
Alexander Marmorek (1865–1923), bacteriologist
Jacques Monod (1918–1985), actor
Mela Muter (Maria Melania Mutermilch) (1876–1967), French/Polish artist
Jean Paulhan (1884–1968), writer, critic
Jehan Rictus (1867–1933), poet
Jules Rimet (1875–1956), founder of the World Cup
Alexander Salkind (1921–1997), film producer
Stéphane Sirchis (1959–1999), musician, founder member of French band Indochine
Albert Stopford (1860–1939), an antique dealer who rescued Romanov jewels
John Wilson (1889–1914), Scottish footballer^[7]
Jean Vigo (1905–1934), film director

Location

Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the main entrance to the Cimetière de Bagneux is located at 43–45, Avenue Marx-Dormoy, in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine. There are two smaller entrances: Porte de Fontenay on Avenue Jean-Jaurès (near the junction with Avenue Marx-Dormoy) and Porte de Bagneux on Rue de l'Égalité (near the junction with Avenue de Garlande).

The cemetery is located next to the small local (communal) cemetery.