Cimetière du Grand Jas de Cannes
Also known as Grand Jas Cemetery
Cannes, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Cannes, Departement des Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur FranceCoordinates: 43.56029, 7.00396 - Cemetery ID:
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Its Cimetière Anglais (a.k.a. "the English square") is the final resting place for a number of English expatriates. It is dominated by the statue of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, who played a major role in building the city. Some of the other notables buried in the Grand Jas Cemetery include Eugène Brieux, dramatist; Martine Carol (actress), Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian jewelery designer), Georges Guétary, singer and actor; Olga Khoklova, Russian ballerina and Picasso's first wife; Klaus Mann and Prosper Mérimée, writers; biochemist Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize winner; Lily Pons, opera singer; and Marcel Thil, boxing champion.
Its Cimetière Anglais (a.k.a. "the English square") is the final resting place for a number of English expatriates. It is dominated by the statue of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, who played a major role in building the city. Some of the other notables buried in the Grand Jas Cemetery include Eugène Brieux, dramatist; Martine Carol (actress), Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian jewelery designer), Georges Guétary, singer and actor; Olga Khoklova, Russian ballerina and Picasso's first wife; Klaus Mann and Prosper Mérimée, writers; biochemist Jacques Monod, Nobel Prize winner; Lily Pons, opera singer; and Marcel Thil, boxing champion.
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- Added: 22 Jul 2001
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 639109
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