Saint-Ouen Cemetery

Main entrance.

The Saint-Ouen Cemetery (French: Le 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.

Famous burials[]

• Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer
• Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962), actress
• Mireille Balin (1909–1968), film actress
• Roland Charmy (1908–1987), violinist, husband of harpist Lily Laskine
• 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.^[1]

References[]

External links[]

• Saint-Ouen Cemetery at Find a Grave

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Coordinates: 48°54′27″N 02°20′51″E / 48.90750°N 2.34750°E / 48.90750; 2.34750

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