Saint-Ouen Cemetery

Cemetery near Paris, France

The Saint-Ouen Cemetery (French: Cimetière Parisien de Saint-Ouen) is located just north of Montmartre at Saint-Ouen, near Paris. The cemetery consists of two parts. The first, located on Rue Adrien Lesesne opened in 1860 and the second at 2 Avenue Michelet was opened on 1 September 1872.

Notable burials

Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), writer
Amer Alwan (1957–2023), film director and actor^[1]
Yvette Andréyor (1891–1962), actress
Mireille Balin (1909–1968), film actress
Roland Charmy (1908–1987), violinist, husband of harpist Lily Laskine
Carmen Damedoz, née Marie Élise Provost (1819–1964), artists model, dancer and aviator
Eugène Godard (1827–1890), aeronaut
Lily Laskine (1893–1988), harpist
Mona Goya (1909–1961), actress
Suzanne Lenglen (1899–1938), tennis champion
Alfred Manessier (1911–1993), painter
Jules Pascin (1885–1930), artist (later re-interred)
Henri Quittard (1864–1919), composer, musicologist
Émile-Alexandre Taskin, (1853–1897), opera singer
Suzanne Valadon (1865–1938), painter

The cemetery contains one British Commonwealth war grave, of a Royal Marines officer of World War I.^[2]

References

^ Vivarelli, Nick (14 July 2023). "Amer Alwan, Iraqi Director of 'Zaman, the Man From the Reeds,' Dies at 66". Variety. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
^ CWGC casualty record, accessed 5 March 2021.