Cemetery in Hauts-de-Seine, France
View of an alley of the Old Cemetery
The
Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery in the
Hauts-de-Seine
département of
France is in the western suburbs of
Paris , between Paris and
La Défense .
The first is called cimetière ancien (Old Cemetery) and is to be found in Neuilly; the second (New Cemetery) is to be found in
Nanterre , near La Défense and adjacent to
Paris La Défense Arena , but belongs to Neuilly. It is called cimetière nouveau .
Notable interments
Old Cemetery
Alessandro Anzani (1877–1956), inventor
Liliane Bettencourt (1922–2017), principal shareholder
L'Oréal
Henri Betti (1917–2005), composer and pianist
Louis de Broglie (1892–1987), Nobel Prize Laureate in science
René Clair (1898–1981), film director
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945), writer
Anatole France (1844–1924), novelist
Pierre Fresnay (1897–1975), actor
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer
André Maurois (1885–1967), writer
Antonia "La Argentina" Mercé (1890–1936), dancer
Paul Meurisse (1912–1979), actor
Pierre Mondy (1925–2012), actor
Yvonne Printemps (1894–1977), actress and singer
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), painter
Jane Rhodes (1929–2011), operatic soprano
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2018) author, filmmaker, member of the Académie Française
Countess Iréne Sampieri (1872–1963), socialite
[1]
[2]
Michel Serrault (1928–2007), actor
The cemetery contains one
Commonwealth war grave , of a
British Red Cross Society officer of
World War I .
[3]
New Cemetery
The cemetery contains 33
Commonwealth war graves , of 32 service personnel from World War I and one from
World War II ,
[4] as well as an
American Legion memorial bearing the names of 250 Americans.
References
External links
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