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Cimetière Saint-Pierre
Details
Established	1863
Location	380 Rue Saint-Pierre, 13005 Marseille
Country	France
Coordinates	43°17′28″N 5°24′45″E / 43.29111°N 5.41250°E / 43.29111; 5.41250
Size	63 ha (160 acres)
Find a Grave	Cimetière Saint-Pierre

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

Location

It is located at number 380 on 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 located in the Parisian region. ^[1] It was established on 25 September 1855. ^[1] However, it was only inaugurated on 30 December 1863. ^[1]

Notable burials

Artists

• Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), playwright
• Léo Nègre (1906–1998), songwriter
• Edmond Rostand (1868–1918), playwright
• Vincent Scotto (1874–1952), music composer
• Henri Verneuil (1920–2002), screenwriter
• Henri 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

External links

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