Cimetière de Montmartre

located at 37 Ave Samson, 18th

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Cimetière de Montmartre is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786 on the fringe of Les Halles food market, on the grounds that it presented a health hazard. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century: Montmartre in the north, Le Cimetière du Père Lachaise in the east, Cimetière de Passy in the west and Cimetière du Montparnasse in the south.

Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt. The cemetery epitomizes the artsy, quixotic, gentle, almost whimsical Paris that every romantic visitor secretly cherishes.

A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area. A few of the famous buried in the Montmartre Cemetery are:

Adolphe Adam, composer
Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer
André-Marie Ampère, physicist (electrical unit ampere named after him)
Hector Berlioz, composer
Lili Boulanger, composer
Václav Brožík, painter
Antoine Carême, the "King of chefs"
Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballerina
Dalida, singer/actress
Edgar Degas, painter, sculptor
léo delibes, composer
Maria Deraismes, social reformer, feminist
Alexandre Dumas, fils, novelist, playwright
Georges Feydeau, playwright
Léon Foucault, scientist
Carole Fredericks, African-American singer
Pauline Garcia-Viardot, opera singer, composer
Theophile Gautier, poet, novelist
Edmond de Goncourt, author/publisher (patron of the Prix Goncourt)
La Goulue, Cancan dancer
Jean-Baptiste Greuze, painter
Sacha Guitry, actor/director
Heinrich Heine, poet
Louis Jouvet, actor
Marie Pierre Koenig, Free French Field-Marshal
Eugène Labiche, writer
Frédérick Lemaître, actor
Mary Marquet, actress
Auguste de Montferrand, architect
Gustave Moreau, painter
Vaslav Nijinsky, dancer
Jacques Offenbach, composer
Francisque Poulbot, painter
Adolphe Sax, musical instrument maker
Stendhal, writer
François Truffaut, film-maker
Horace Vernet, painter
Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, novelist
Émile Zola, author (for six years, moved to the Panthéon in 1908)
Jean Marie Joseph Farina (1785-1864), manufacturer of Eau de Cologne