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.

History

The cemetery of the Rue des Poissonniers was created in 1786. Saturated, there was plans to move it when as the French Revolution began. In 1808, a new site was chosen, thanks to an exchange of land with Marshal Joachim Murat, owner of the Château de Villiers.

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

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  • André Maurois (1885–1967), writer
  • Antonia "La Argentina" Mercé (1890–1936), dancer
  • Paul Meurisse (1912–1979), actor
  • Pierre Mondy (1925–2012), actor

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  • 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
  • Michel Serrault (1928–2007), actor

The cemetery contains one Commonwealth war grave, of a British Red Cross Society officer of World War I.

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, as well as an American Legion memorial bearing the names of 250 Americans.

References

  • Adapted from the article Neuilly-sur-Seine community cemetery, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.