Montrouge Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Montrouge) is a cemetery in the south of the 14th arrondissement of Paris, located between the Boulevards of the Marshals and Boulevard Périphérique. It was created in 1819 in the commune of Montrouge, but was transferred to the City of Paris in 1925 following a border change.
Whilst the most visited grave is that of Coluche, there are many other graves of interest,Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs – Montrouge (92) : cimetières, sur landrucimetieres.fr. Consulté le 16 février 2013. as well as a crypt. Despite being a Parisian cemetery, the influence of Montrouge is noteworthy, most notably through the granite stele commemorating 96 soldiers from Montrouge fallen on World War I battlegrounds.
Selection of personalities buried in the cemetery
Grave Name Dates Désignation Maurice Arnoux 1895–1940 aviator Odile Astié 1941–1980 first French stunt woman Michel Audiard 1920–1985 dialoguist, screenwriter and director Jurgis Baltrušaitis 1873–1944 Lithuanian symbolist poet and translator Émile Bégin 1802–1888 physician and historian István Beöthy 1897–1961 sculptor and architect of Hungarian origin Georges Biscot 1889–1944 actor and singer Eugénie Buffet 1866–1934 singer of music hall Cécile CerfMarcel Cerf 1916–19731911–2010 Resistanthistorian Pierre Clerget 1875–1943 engineer and inventor Coluche 1944–1986 comedian and actor René Crevel 1900–1935 surrealist writer and poet Gabriel Cromer 1873–1934 photographer and collector Georges Cusin 1902–1964 stage and film actor Jules Déchin 1869–1947 statuary (buried with his stepfather Louis Noël) Emmanuel Dolivet 1854–1910 sculptor Maurice Escande 1892–1973 stage and film actor Félix Fourdrain 1880–1923 organist and composer Pierre-Gilles de Gennes 1932–2007 physicist, Collège de France faculty, Nobel prize Gustave Geffroy 1855–1926 journalist, art critic, historian and novelist Henri Ginoux 1909–1994 mayor of Montrouge Albert Kazimirski de Biberstein 1808–1887 orientalist of Polish origin Grégory Ken 1947–1996 singer Alphonse Kirchhoffer 1873–1913 foil fencing master Georges Kirsch 1892–1969 aviator and test pilot Ernest La Jeunesse 1874–1917 journalist and drama critic Lina Margy 1914–1973 singer Jacques Paul Migne (called Abbé Migne) 1800–1875 priest and publisher (buried in the crypt) Germaine Montero 1909–2000 comedian and singer Henri Mouillefarine 1910–1994 racing cyclist Dimitri Navachine 1889–1937 Russian politician and economist Louis Noël 1839–1925 sculptor (buried with his son in law Jules Déchin) Charles Pélissier 1903–1959 racing cyclist Henri Queffélec 1910–1992 writer Lucien Rosengart 1881–1976 car manufacturer Albert Simonin 1905–1980 writer and scriptwriter Nicolas de Staël 1914–1955 painter of Russian origin André Tollet 1913–2001 union leader
References
External links
Le cimetière de Montrouge, sur le site des amis et passionnés du Père-Lachaise