Cimetière Saint-Pierre (Marseille)
The Cimetière Saint-Pierre is the largest cemetery in the town of Marseille, France.Location
It is located at number 380 on the Rue Saint-Pierre in the 5th arrondissement of Marseille.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 based in Paris. It was established on September 25, 1855. However, it was only inaugurated on December 30, 1863.Notable burials
Artists
- Antonin Artaud, playwright
- Léo Nègre, songwriter
- Edmond Rostand, playwright
- Vincent Scotto, music composer
- Henri Verneuil, screenwriter
- Alibert, actor
- Rellys, actor
- Gaby Deslys, singer
- Berthe Sylva, singer
- Ernest Reyer, music composer
- Émile Loubon, painter
- Pierre Ambrogiani, painter
- Valère Bernard, painter
- Charles Camoin, painter
- Antoine Marius Gianelli, painter
- Paul Gondard, sculptor
- Henri Christiné, music composer
- Andrée Turcy, actor
- Élie-Jean Vézien, sculptor
- Auguste Vimar, illustrator
- André Roussin, playwright
- Constant Roux, sculptor
- Antoine Sartorio, sculptor
- Louis Ducreux, screenwriter
- Antoine Ferrari, painter
- Milly Mathis, actor
- Alida Rouffe, actor
- Jean-Vital Jammes, opera singer
- René Sarvil, actor
- Gabriel Signoret, actor
- Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli, painter
- Alphonse Moutte, painter
- Dominique Piazza, illustrator
- Charles Armand Septime de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg, diplomat and politician
- Alphonse Esquiros, poet and politician
- Joseph Thierry, politician
- Albert Littolff, military pilot
- François Charles-Roux, diplomat
- Émile Muselier, resistant
- Germaine Poinso-Chapuis, politician
- Gaston Defferre, politician
- Georges N'Guyen Van Loc, intelligence chief
Sportspeople
- Gunnar Andersson, football player
- Raymond Grassi, boxer
- Luc Borrelli, football player
- Jean Bouin, runner
- Gustave Ganay, cyclist
- Henri Rougier, cyclist
Other
- Alexandre Chabanon, missionary in Indochina
- Gaétan Picon, inventor of Sirop de Picon
- Louis Noilly and Claudius Prat, founders of Noilly Prat
- Jules Charles-Roux, businessman and philanthropist
- Gustave Desplaces, engineer
- Pascal Coste, architect
- Nicolas Paquet, businessman
- Michel-Robert Penchaud, architect
- Eugène Rostand, economist
- Joseph Héliodore Garcin de Tassy, academic
- Antoine Clot, physician and philanthropist
- Aimé Olivier de Sanderval, explorer
- Antoine-Fortuné Marion, botanist
- Jacques de Morgan, explorer
