The Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery in the Hauts-de-Seine département of France is in the western suburbs of Paris, between Paris and La Défense.
The first is called cimetière ancien (Old Cemetery) and is to be found in Neuilly; the second (New Cemetery) is to be found in Nanterre, near La Défense and adjacent to Paris La Défense Arena, but belongs to Neuilly. It is called cimetière nouveau.
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Notable interments
Old Cemetery
- Alessandro Anzani (1877–1956), inventor
- Liliane Bettencourt (1922–2017), principal shareholder L'Oréal
- Henri Betti (1917–2005), composer and pianist
- Louis de Broglie (1892–1987), Nobel Prize Laureate in science
- René Clair (1898–1981), film director
- Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945), writer
- Anatole France (1844–1924), novelist
- Pierre Fresnay (1897–1975), actor
- Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer
- André Maurois (1885–1967), writer
- Antonia "La Argentina" Mercé (1890–1936), dancer
- Paul Meurisse (1912–1979), actor
- Pierre Mondy (1925–2012), actor
- Yvonne Printemps (1894–1977), actress and singer
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), painter
- Jane Rhodes (1929–2011), operatic soprano
- Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2018) author, filmmaker, member of the Académie Française
- Countess Iréne Sampieri (1872–1963), socialite[1][2]
- Michel Serrault (1928–2007), actor
The cemetery contains one Commonwealth war grave, of a British Red Cross Society officer of World War I.[3]
New Cemetery
- Grégoire Aslan (1908–1982), actor
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), painter
The cemetery contains 33 Commonwealth war graves, of 32 service personnel from World War I and one from World War II,[4] as well as an American Legion memorial bearing the names of 250 Americans.
References
- ^ "Cahen d'Anvers Irène – Tombes Sépultures dans les cimetières et autres lieux".
- ^ "Villa araucaris".
- ^ "Neuilly-Sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery". CWGC. 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- ^ "Neuilly-Sur-Seine New Communal Cemetery". CWGC. 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
External links
- Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery at Find a Grave
- Adapted from the article Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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This page was last edited on 10 March 2023, at 18:11