Cemetery in France
The Cemetery of Notre-Dame, Versailles (
French : Cimetière Notre-Dame ), is a
cemetery in
Versailles ,
Yvelines ,
France , near the
Palace of Versailles . It was established by the
church and parish of Notre-Dame in 1777, and covers three
hectares . The postal address is 15 Rue des Missionnaires.
Besides quantities of burials of aristocrats, members of religious orders and people of artistic or historic interest, there is also an enclosed section for soldiers of the
Prussian army who fell during the
Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71.
Notable burials
Tomb of Marcelle Lanchon
fr:Félix Antoine Appert (1817–1891), general
fr:Jean-François Chiappe (1931–2001), historian
Jeanne Potot de Commarmond (1779–1866), second wife of
André-Marie Ampère
Cimetière Notre-Dame de Versailles - Entrée
Émile Deschamps (1791–1871), poet (his tomb is anonymous, with only the inscription: Ci-gît un poète - "Here lies a poet")
Louis-Édouard Dubufe (1819–1883), painter, brother-in-law of
Gounod
Jules Favre (1809–1880), lawyer,
Minister of Foreign Affairs under the
Third Republic
André François-Poncet (1887–1978), ambassador,
Academician
Baron
Étienne Hastrel de Rivedoux (1766–1846), general of the Empire, governor of
Hamburg
fr:Gustave Heuzé (1816–1907), agronomist
Marcelle Lanchon (1891–1933), a religious who received visions of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
Jeanne-Marie (1875–1947) and Frédéric Petitjean de La Rosière (1876–1949), authors of sentimental popular novels under the joint pen name of
Delly
fr:Frédéric Nepveu (1777–1862), one of the architects of the
Palace of Versailles
Michel Peter (1824–1893), member of the
Académie de Médecine
Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792–1865), president of
Peru and of
Bolivia (his ashes were repatriated to Bolivia in 1965).
See also
References
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