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• Aymé, Marcel André    b. March 29, 1902  d. October 14, 1967
  Author. A novelist and essayist, his most famous works are "La jument verte" (The Green Mare), "La passe-muraille" (The Man Who Walked Through Walls). He was also active in the theatre and in movies as a playwright. (Bio by: Apats)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 10
   
• Baur, Harry    b. April 12, 1880  d. April 8, 1943
  Actor. Although he made his film debut in France as early as 1910 (as Shylock in a one-reel version of "The Merchant of Venice"), he did not become a star until the 1930's, playing Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables" (1934), the title characters in "Rothschild" (1933), "Taras Bulba" (1936), "The Great Love of Beethoven" (1936), and "Volpone" (1939). With the Nazi occupation of France in 1940, Baur made public pro-French statements and as punishment was forced into making films in Germany. In...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 9
   
• Carné, Marcel    b. August 18, 1906  d. October 31, 1996
  Motion Picture Director. He worked as cinematographic critic and writer before began his career in cinema in 1936. He directed films such as "Quai des Brumes" (1938), "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1944), "Thérèse Raquin" (1953), "Terrain Vague" and "La Merveilleuse Visite" (1973). (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 4
   
• Chialiva, Luigi   b. July 16, 1842  d. April, 1914
  Artist. He was born in Caslano, Switzerland, he was the son of Abbondio Chialiva of Traversella, Italy and Luigia Tosi of Caslano. He was a pupil of Gottfried Semper at the Polytechnic Institute in Zurich and then studied under Mancini at the School of Art in Milan. In 1868 he won 1st Prize from the Mylins Foundation, where he submitted an animal painting. He became friends with artist Edgar Degas in Rome. (Bio by: Janice Buchanan)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Grandais, Suzanne   b. June 14, 1893  d. August 28, 1920
  Actress. Nicknamed "The Mary Pickford of France" for her angelic looks, she was one of her country's most popular screen idols of the World War I era. Born Suzanne Gueudret in Paris, she started out as a professional dancer and made her film debut in 1910. Director Louis Feuillade brought her to the Gaumont studio in 1913 and gave Grandais her first lead roles, and within two years she had her own production company. She appeared in more than 60 films, among them "Les Parents De L'Enfant...[Read More] (Bio by: Alberto Blanco)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Honegger, Arthur    b. March 10, 1892  d. November 27, 1955
  Composer. Swiss by birth, he spent most of his life in France. He first won notoriety in the early 1920s as a member of "Les Six", a group of irreverent Parisian musicians who rebelled against Romanticism and Impressionism. But his signature style was more serious and weighty, infused with a Germanic sensibility. Honegger's "Pacific 231" (1924), a vivid, exciting study of a train in motion, is a classic example of descriptive music. His oratorios "King David" (1921, revised 1924) and "...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 8
   
• Smithson, Harriet [original burial site]   b. 1800  d. March 3, 1854
  Actress. The first wife of composer Hector Berlioz. How she inspired him to write his "Symphonie fantastique" (1830) is one of the most famous tales in classical music. Smithson was born in Ennis, Ireland, the daughter of a theatre manager. In 1815 she made her performing debut in Dublin in "The Will" and three years later bowed in London with "The Belle's Strategem". She was reportedly a fine tragic actress with haunting...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Utrillo, Maurice    b. December 26, 1883  d. November 5, 1955
  Artist / painter.
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 4, at the end of Avenue Saint-Vincent
   
• Vaurabourg-Honegger, Andree    b. September 8, 1894  d. July 18, 1980
  French pianist, composer, and teacher. The wife of Arthur Honegger, she premiered several of his works, including the "Concertino for Piano"(1925). Her pupils included Pierre Boulez. (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetiere St. Vincent, Montmartre, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 8
   

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