Cimetière Saint-Vincent

The Cimetière Saint-Vincent is a small cemetery on rue Lucien-Gaulard in Paris ( 18th arrdt. ) .

It was opened on January 5, 1831 as a second cemetery for the village of Montmartre , which was then outside the urban area, to relieve the Cimetière du Calvaire and already in 1858 it turned out to be too small, so that a new cemetery, the Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, was beyond of the fortress belt was created. In the course of the incorporation of 1860, the "Cimetière Saint-Vincent" came into the possession of the city of Paris. From then on only a few hereditary burials were allowed.

The cemetery houses 920 graves, including those of:

Marcel Aymé's grave

The grave of Maurice Utrillo with the spared allegory of painting

• 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), painter, graphic artist and lithographer
• Roland Dorgelès (1885–1973), writer
• Emile Goudeau (1849–1904), journalist, novelist and poet
• Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), composer
• Désiré Inghelbrecht (1880–1965), composer and conductor
• Gen Paul (1895–1975), painter
• Paul Sédir (Yvon Le Loup), (1871–1926), writer and philosopher
• Théophile Steinlen (1859–1923), painter
• Maurice Utrillo (1883–1955), painter, and his wife, the painter Lucie Valore (actually Lucie Pauwels); the grave is decorated with a stone "Allegory of Painting", by the fire of during the Paris Commune lit de Hôtel Ville (City Hall) was spared.

literature

• Peter Stephan: Of Life Dernier Cri. A running and reading book about Parisian cemeteries. Elster, Bühl-Moos 1985, ISBN 3-89151-021-7 , pp. 103-111.
• Judi Culbertson, Tom Randall: Permanent Parisians. An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris. Robson, London 1991, ISBN 0-86051-734-9 , pp. 133-139.
• Yves Groetschel, Guy Le Hallé: Village Montmartre Clignancourt. 2nd edition. Village Communication, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-910001-00-8 .

Web links

Commons : Cimetière Saint-Vincent  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• equipement.paris.fr: The cemetery on the website of the City of Paris (French)
• api-site-cdn.paris.fr: Map of the Cimetière Saint-Vincent (French)
• appl-lachaise.net: Le cimetière Saint-Vincent (French)
• bertrandbeyern.fr: 50 célébrités du cimetière Saint-Vincent (French)

Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 20.3 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 21.2"  E