Cimetière Saint-Pierre (Marseille)

Cimetière Saint-Pierre

Details
Location	380 Rue Saint-Pierre, 13005 Marseille
Country	France
Size	63 ha

The Cimetière Saint-Pierre is the largest cemetery in the town of Marseille, France.^[1]

Location

It is located at number 380 on the Rue Saint-Pierre in the 5th arrondissement of Marseille.^[2][3]

Overview

The cemetery is the third largest cemetery in France after the Cimetière parisien de Pantin and the Cimetière parisien de Thiais, both of which are based in Paris.^[1] It was established on September 25, 1855.^[1] However, it was only inaugurated on December 30, 1863.^[1]

Notable burials

Artists

• Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), playwight
• Léo Nègre (1906–1998), songwriter
• Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), playwright
• Vincent Scotto (1874–1952), music composer
• Henri Verneuil (1920–2002), screenwriter
• Alibert (1889–1951), actor
• Rellys (1905–1991), actor
• Gaby Deslys (1881–1920), singer
• Berthe Sylva (1885–1941), singer
• Ernest Reyer (1823–1909), music composer
• Émile Loubon (1809–1863), painter
• Pierre Ambrogiani (1906–1985), painter
• Valère Bernard (1860–1936), painter
• Charles Camoin (1879–1965), painter
• Antoine Marius Gianelli (1896–1983), painter
• Paul Gondard (1884–1953), sculptor
• Henri Christiné (1867–1941), music composer
• Andrée Turcy (1891–1974), actor
• Élie-Jean Vézien (1890–1982), sculptor
• Auguste Vimar (1851–1916), illustrator
• André Roussin (1911–1987), playwright
• Constant Roux (1869–1942), sculptor
• Antoine Sartorio (1885–1988), sculptor
• Louis Ducreux (1911–1992), screenwriter
• Antoine Ferrari (1910–1995), painter
• Milly Mathis (1901–1965), actor
• Alida Rouffe (1874–1949), actor
• Jean-Vital Jammes (1825–1893), opera singer
• René Sarvil (1901–1975), actor
• Gabriel Signoret (1878–1937), actor
• Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (1824–1886), painter
• Alphonse Moutte (1840–1913), painter
• Dominique Piazza (1860–1941), illustrator

Politicians and military personnel

• Charles Armand Septime de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg (1801–1845), diplomat and politician
• Alphonse Esquiros (1812–1876), poet and politician
• Joseph Thierry (1857–1918), politician
• Albert Littolff (1911–1943), military pilot
• François Charles-Roux (1879–1961), diplomat
• Émile Muselier (1882–1965), resistant
• Germaine Poinso-Chapuis (1901–1981), politician
• Gaston Defferre (1910–1986), politician
• Georges N'Guyen Van Loc (1933–2008), intelligence chief

Sportspeople

• Gunnar Andersson (1928–1969), football player
• Raymond Grassi (1930–1953), boxer
• Luc Borrelli (1965–1999), football player
• Jean Bouin (1888–1914), runner
• Gustave Ganay (1892–1926), cyclist
• Henri Rougier (1876–1956), cyclist

Other

• Alexandre Chabanon (1873–1936), missionary in Indochina
• Gaétan Picon, inventor of Sirop de Picon
• Louis Noilly and Claudius Prat, founders of Noilly Prat
• Jules Charles-Roux (1841–1918), businessman and philanthropist
• Gustave Desplaces (1820–1869), engineer
• Pascal Coste (1787–1879), architect
• Nicolas Paquet (1831–1909), businessman
• Michel-Robert Penchaud (1772–1833), architect
• Eugène Rostand (1843–1915), economist
• Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy (1794–1878), academic
• Antoine Clot (1793–1868), physician and philanthropist
• Aimé Olivier de Sanderval (1840–1919), explorer
• Antoine-Fortuné Marion (1846–1900), botanist
• Jacques de Morgan (1857–1924), explorer

References

1. Boulaméry Odette, Le cimetière Saint-Pierre de Marseille, Marseille: Comité du Vieux-Marseille, 1999
2. Google Map
3. Yellow Pages

External links

Media related to Cimetière Saint-Pierre (Marseille) at Wikimedia Commons