Saint-Vincent Cemetery

Saint-Vincent Cemetery

240px Entrance of Saint-Vincent Cemetery
The location of Saint-Vincent Cemetery
Details
Established	1831
Location	Paris, Montmartre
Country	France
Coordinates
Type	Communal
Owned by	Mairie de Paris
Size	> 0.7 hectares (1.7 acres)
Number of graves	900
Find a Grave	639135

Saint-Vincent Cemetery (French: Cimetière Saint-Vincent) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

History

Saint-Vincent Cemetery was opened on January 5, 1831. It was Montmartre's second cemetery, built after the Cimetière du Calvaire had been filled.

Notable interments

• Marcel Aymé (1902-1967), writer
• Harry Baur (1880-1943), actor
• Eugène Boudin (1824-1898) painter
• Marcel Carné (1906-1996), film director
• Jules Chéret (1836-1932), master poster designer
• Jean-François Delmas (1861-1933), opera singer
• Roland Dorgeles (1885-1973), writer
• Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), composer
• Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (1880-1965), composer and orchestra leader
• Gen Paul (1895-1975), painter
• Paul Sédir (Yvon Le Loup), (1871-1926), writer, philosopher
• Théophile Steinlen (1859-1923) painter
• Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), painter
• Andrée Vaurabourg (1894 - 1980), French pianist and teacher

Location

Saint-Vincent Cemetery is located in rue Lucien-Gaulard in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France. It is a short walk from the Montmartre Cemetery and near the Sacré-Cœur. The Lapin Agile is located behind the wall, behind the grave of Maurice Utrillo.

Public transport

The cemetery is a short walk from the Lamarck – Caulaincourt métro station and is serviced by line 12. The nearest railway stations are Gare du Nord and Gare de Pont-Cardinet.

The cemetery is also served by bus line 80.

There is a Vélib' station at Rue du Coulaincourt (18017).

Gallery

• SVC Argyriades.JPG

  The grave of poets Platon and Papuoe Argyriades

• SVC Rose.JPG

  Graves

• SVC Main road.JPG

  One of the paths through Saint-Vincent Cemetery

External links

• (French) Saint-Vincent Cemetery on the Mairie de Paris website (including map)
• (French) Landru, Philippe, Cimetière Saint-Vincent de Montmartre, Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs 2009
• (French) Saint-Vincent Cemetery on the APPL website