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• Aubry, Cecile   b. August 3, 1928  d. July 19, 2010
  Actress, Author. She followed a brief career as a silver screen sex kitten with success as a writer of children's stories. Born Anne-Jose Madeleine Henriette Benard, she initially performed as a dancer and became an overnight star as the title lead of Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1949 "Manon" which won the Lion d'or at the Venice Film Festival. Signed by Fox she soon found herself on the cover of "Life" and in the pages of numerous European movie magazines while starring in "The Black Rose" (1950)...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Cimetiere de Montrouge, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Augereau, Pierre   b. October 21, 1757  d. June 12, 1816
  French General. Held the rank of Marshall of France during the Napoleonic Wars.
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 59
   
• Augustin Thierry, Jacques Nicolas   b. May 10, 1795  d. May 22, 1856
  Historian.
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Aumont, Jean-Pierre   b. January 5, 1911  d. January 30, 2001
  Actor. His seven-decade career included television, theatre, and motion pictures. Highlights include "Lili" with Leslie Caron, Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar," and the 1998 television miniseries "The Count of Monte Cristo." He also wrote several books, including novels and an autobiography. He was married to actress Maria Montez, who acted with him in "Atlantis."
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 22, #3
   
• Aumont, Tina    b. February 14, 1946  d. October 28, 2006
  Actress. Born Maria Christina Aumont (also known as Tina Marquand), she was a French actress of the 1960s and 1970s who appeared mainly in international films. After making her big screen debut in the movie "Modestry Blaise" in 1966, she had notable performances in the films "Texas Across the River", (1966) with Dean Martin, "A Matter of Time", (1976) with Ingrid Bergman and "Holocaust II", (1980). Her parents were actors Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez. She was married to actor Christian...[Read More] (Bio by: C.S.)
  Cause of death: Pulmonary embolism
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Aupick, Jacques    b. 1789  d. April 27, 1857
  French General. Stepfather of the poet Baudelaire.
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Auric, Georges    b. February 15, 1899  d. July 23, 1983
  Composer. He was a member of "Les Six", a group of irreverent Parisian musicians who rebelled against Romanticism and Impressionism in the years after World War I. Today he is best remembered as one of France's ablest creators of film music. Auric was born in Lodeve, southern France, and raised in Montpellier, where he began music studies. Between 1913 and 1916 he attended the Paris Conservatory and studied composition with Vincent d'Indy at the Schola Cantorum, gaining a reputation as...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Avril, Jane    b. May 31, 1868  d. January 16, 1943
  Dancer. Famed for dancing the "Can-Can". She was painted by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec.
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 19, #1
   
• Bakhtiar, Shapur    b. 1914  d. August 6, 1991
  Leader of democratic opposition to the Shah of Iran, and briefly (37 days) Prime Minister of Iran after fall of the Shah. Lived in exile in Paris.
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Baldaccini, Cesar    b. January 1, 1921  d. December 6, 1998
  Artist. Sculptor who experimented with use of scrap metal, compressed cars, and other such unconventional material. His own sculpture surmounts his grave.
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Balzac, Honore de    b. May 30, 1799  d. August 18, 1850
  Author. He is considered the founder of the realistic school of French Literature. Balzac was the first great writer to explore the influence of environment on human beings, and to reveal the complex bonds that tie man to society. His fame rests on "The Human Comedy", a series of nearly 100 novels and novellas. Together they form an epic panorama of French life between the 1789 and 1830 Revolutions. "The Human Comedy" has over 2000 characters, many of whom appear in two or more books...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 48, #1
   
• Banville, Theodore de    b. March 14, 1823  d. March 15, 1891
  Poet.
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Bao dai    b. October 22, 1913  d. July 30, 1997
  Emperor of Vietnam. The Last to hold that title.
  Cimetiere de Passy, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules [original burial site]   b. November 2, 1808  d. April 23, 1889
  Writer, he was transferred in 1926 to St Sauveur, le vicomte's cemetery, in Normandy.
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Barbusse, Henri    b. May 17, 1873  d. August 30, 1935
  Author. His novel of the First World War ('Le Feu' - 'Under Fire') won the Prix Goncourt and has remained a classic. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 97, #6
   
• Barney, Nathalie Clifford    b. October 31, 1876  d. April 24, 1972
  Poet, Memoirist and Epigrammatist. Her father, Albert Clifford Barney, inherited a railroad fortune, which allowed Natalie to move in the highest social and diplomatic circles. High society and its rigid protocal bored her so she was eager to pursue her own adventures. As a child, she had visited Europe many times, and when she was twenty-four she settled permanently in Paris. Her life and literary salon that she held fifty years in Paris was the epicenter of lesbian genius and talent in the...[Read More] (Bio by: AlongSide)
  Cimetiere de Passy, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Barras, Paul    b. June 30, 1755  d. January 29, 1829
  Politician during French Revolution and after; he was one of the men who fell Robespierre in 1794.
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 28, #11
   
• Barrault, Jean Louis    b. September 8, 1910  d. January 22, 1994
  French actor and director who with his wife founded a major theatrical company. He appeared in such films as "The Children of Paradise" and "The Longest Day." He was married to actress Madeleine Renaud.
  Cimetiere de Passy, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 3
   
• Barret, Louis Francois Andre   d. September 2, 1792
  Priest of St. Roch, killed when the church was attacked during the French Revolution. (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: Martyred
  Church of Saint-Roch, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Barrier, Jean-Baptiste [original burial site]   b. May 2, 1707  d. June 6, 1747
  Composer, Cellist. France's first great virtuoso cellist, he did much to popularize the instrument outside of its native Italy. Barrière was born in Bordeaux. He initially studied different types of viola da gamba before discovering the cello's richer sonorities. In 1731 he went to Paris as a string player for the Academie Royale de Musique (an early name for the Paris Opera), where his reputation soon blossomed. Within two years King Louis XV had granted him what amounted to a lifelong...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetiere des Innocents (Defunct), Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   

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