Cimetière de Passy

2 rue du Commandant Schoelsing

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The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located in 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing, in the quarter of Passy in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Cimetière de Passy

In the early 19th century, several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones. Outside the precincts of the capital, Cimetière de Montmartre was built in the north, Cimetière Père Lachaise in the east, and Cimetière du Montparnasse in the south. At the heart of the city, Cimetière de Passy was built.

Opened in 1820 in the expensive residential and commercial districts of the Right Bank near the Champs-Élysées, by 1874 the small Passy Cemetery had become the aristocratic necropolis of Paris. It is the only cemetery in Paris with a heated waiting room.

After World War I, the retaining wall of the Passy cemetery was adorned with a bas relief in honor of the soldiers. The beautiful cemetery is sheltered by a bower of chestnut trees, and sits in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower.

A few of its famous residents are:

Marie Bashkirtseff - Painter; her tomb is a real-size studio
James Gordon Bennett, Jr. - American newspaper publisher, sportsman
Tristan Bernard - Playwright and novelist
Bao Dai - last Emperor of Vietnam
Claude Debussy - Composer
Marcel Dassault (1892-1986) - engineer, founder of Dassault Aviation
Ghislaine Dommanget - (1900-1991), Princess of Monaco
Henry Farman - Aviator
Edgar Faure - Statesman
Gabriel Fauré - Composer
Fernandel - (Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin) - Actor
Maurice Gamelin -(1872-1958), 1st Commander of Allied Forces in WWII
Maurice Genevoix (1946-1980), novelist
Jean Giraudoux - Writer
Gabriel Hanotaux - (1853–1944), statesman and historian
Jacques Ibert - (1890-1962), composer
Paul Landowsky - (1875-1961), architect and sculptor
Georges Mandel - statesman
Edouard Manet - Painter
Octave Mirbeau - Art critic, novelist
Berthe Morisot - Painter
Princess Leila of Iran - (1970-2001), daughter of the Shah of Iran.
Princess Brassova - (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov)
Gabrielle Réjane (1856-1920), actress
Marcel Renault - (1872-1903), automobile pioneer
Haroun Tazieff - (1914-1998), vulcanologist
Pearl White - American silent film star, famous for doing her own stunts in her serials "The Perils of Pauline"