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• Allais, Maurice   b. May 31, 1911  d. October 9, 2010
  Economist. He won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, for his contributions to market theory and the efficient utilization of resources. As a student in the early 1930s Allais toured Depression-era America, which he called "a graveyard of factories", and this decided his future career. He earned a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1949, by which time he had already written his two most important books, "In Quest of an Economic Discipline (1943) and "Economy and Interest" (1947). His work...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
  Cimetière de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Almereyda (Vigo), Miguel (Eugene Bonaventure De)    b. January 5, 1883  d. August 13, 1917
  French Anarchist, Journalist. Founder and editor of the radical weekly journal "La Guerre Sociale"(1906 to 1913) and the socialist daily "Le Bonnet Rouge"(1913 to 1917), he made many enemies in the French government during World War I. On August 6, 1917, Almereyda was arrested for treason, allegedly for receiving funds from Germany in exchange for taking an anti-war position in his newspaper. One week later he was found dead in his jail cell, strangled with his own shoelaces. Authorities ruled...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimètiere de Bagneux, Bagneux, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 29
   
• Angeli, Pier (Anna Marie Pierangeli)   b. June 19, 1932  d. September 10, 1971
  Actress. Italian-born motion picture and television figure of the 1940s through the 1970s. Her last screen appearance was in the 1971 sci-fi film "Octaman." Married for a time to singer Vic Dammone, and later to composer Armando Trovajoli. (Bio by: A.J. Marik)
  Cause of death: Suicide. Drug overdose of barbituates.
  Cimetière des Bulvis, Rueil-Malmaison, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Anzani, Alessandro Ambrogio    b. December 5, 1877  d. July 24, 1956
  Inventor. He was an Italian cyclist and motorcycle builder who invented the first lightweight engine for practical use in airplanes. His three-cylinder, air-cooled engine was used by aviator Louis Blériot in the first successful flight across the English Channel in 1909. He spent the majority of his life in France, but retained his Italian citizenship out of loyalty to his own country. The 1920s Italian car "Anzani" takes its name from the company that he founded. (Bio by: amy7252)
  Cimetière de Neuilly-sur-Seine (Ancien), Neuilly-sur-Seine, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Astor, Junie   b. December 21, 1912  d. August 22, 1967
  French actress. Born in Marseilles, her career spanned four decades and over 50 films from her 1933 film Etienne directed by Jean Tarride to her final film in 1967, L’Homme de L’Interpol directed by Maruice Boutel. Her performance in the 1937 film "Le Coupable," was rewarded with the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti, a prize awarded annually to a promising French actress. Cause of death: vehicular accident, in Sainte-Magnance, France. (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
  Cimètiere de Bagneux, Bagneux, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 36
   
• Bakst, Léon Samoilovitch    b. May 10, 1866  d. December 28, 1924
  Artist. A co-founder of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, his boldly-colored creations for that troupe had an international influence on fashion and interior design.
  Batignolles Cemetery, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 25, Row 21, Grave 24
   
• Barbara (Serf) (Monique)    b. June 9, 1930  d. November 24, 1997
  Singer (""Gottingen", "Il Pleut sur Nantes").
  Cimètiere de Bagneux, Bagneux, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 4
   
• Bathiat, Arletty-Leonie    b. May 15, 1898  d. July 24, 1992
  Noted French Actress on Stage and Screen. She is best remembered for her films: "Les Perles de la Couronne" (1937), "Hôtel du Nord" (1938), "Le Jour se Lève" (1939), "Madame Sans-Gêne" (1941), "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945), "Le Grand Jeu" (1954), "Huis Clos" (1954) and "Les Petits Matins" (1962). She was cremated. (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
  Nouveau Cimetière de Courbevoie, Courbevoie, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Familiar Pantheon
   
• Batti, Jeannette    b. September 6, 1921  d. February 10, 2011
  Actress. She was seen in numerous French film and television features over a long career. Born Henriette Eugenie Genot, she made her silver screen bow as Lulu in 1945's "The King of the Free Riders". Jeannette eventually had roughly three dozen movie roles including Mona in the 1946 "Macadam", Claudia in "Paris is Always Paris" (1951), Margot in 1956's "Three of the Cranbiere", Mariette Martin in "Crossing the Paris" (also 1956), and Mrs. Bridleford in the 1963 "Pirates of the Mississippi", her...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Neuilly-sur-Seine New Communal Cemetery, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Baylies, Frank Leamon    b. September 23, 1895  d. June 17, 1918
  Aviation "Ace" of the First World War. A native of New Bedford, Massachusetts, he joined the United States Ambulance Service in 1916. After seeing action on the Western Front and in Serbia, he enlisted in the French Air Service in May 1917. After earning his pilot's wings, he was assigned to Spa 73 at Dunkirk in November 1917. A month later, he joined the Storks Group as a pilot with Spa 3. In early 1918, Baylies refused a commission with the United States Air Service, preferring to remain with...[Read More]
  Lafayette Escadrille Memorial, Marnes-la-Coquette, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Bechet, Sidney Joseph    b. May 14, 1897  d. May 14, 1959
  Musician. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was leadgenary jazz saxophonist, clarinetist and composer. He began as child touring and traveling, going as far north as Chicago, east to New York and joined Syncopated Orchestra, journeyed to Europe to perform at the Royal Philharmonic Hall in 1919. During the 1920s and 1930s, with Louis Armstrong and Tommy Ladnier, he recorded and composed songs to include "New Orleans Feetwarmers", Weary Blues", "Really the Blues" and "Petite Fleur". Basing from...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Cimetiere de Garches, Garches, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Benois, Alexander    b. May 4, 1870  d. February 9, 1960
  Theatrical Designer, Painter, Historian. An imaginative Classicist, his colorful style blended Russian Folk and French Rococo influences. He played an instrumental role in the founding of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Alexander Nikolayevich Benois was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, into a distinguished family of French-Italian descent. Apart from a brief course in stage design at the Academy of Arts in 1887, he was self-taught as an artist. He made frequent trips to Europe and from...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Batignolles Cemetery, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 25, Row 5, Central Path, Grave 8
   
• Bergson, Henri Louis    b. January 18, 1859  d. January 5, 1941
  Philosopher. Nobel prize in Literature, 1927.
  Cimetiere de Garches, Garches, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Blain, Gerard   b. October 23, 1930  d. December 17, 2000
  Filmmaker, Actor. Born in Paris, he appeared in films such as "Les Enfants du Paradis" (1945), "Voici le Temps des Assassins" (1956), Claude Chabrol's "Le Beau Serge" (1958), "Les Cousins" (1959), as John Wayne's sidekick in "Hatari!" (1962), "Via Margutta" (1963), "Un Homme de Trop" (1967), "Le Pélican" (1973), Wim Wenders' "Der Amerikanische Freund/The American Friend" (1977), "Utopia" (1978), "Si Je Réponds Pas, C'est que Je Suis Mort" (1982), "La Derelitta" (1983), "Poussière d'Ange" (1987)...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
  Cimetière de Saint-Cloud, Saint-Cloud, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Blanchard, María   b. March 6, 1881  d. April 5, 1932
  Artist. A leading Cubist painter in the early 20th century. Born in Santander, Spain, Blanchard moved to Madrid to become a painter in 1903, and continued her studies in Paris on 1909. During this time she was introduced to Cubism after meeting painter Juan Gris. The following year, Blanchard received a medal in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts for her work entitled "Nymphs Chaining to Sileno". After returning to Madrid for a few years, she settled in Paris in 1916 and won fame with her...[Read More] (Bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)
  Cimètiere de Bagneux, Bagneux, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 88
   
• Boccara, Frida    b. October 29, 1940  d. August 8, 1996
  French Classical Singer. Born in Casablanca to Jewish family of Italian origin, she became well known in the early 1960s at the Festival of the Rose d' Or in the Antibes; recorded "Cent mille chansons" ("A Hundred Thousand Songs") in 1962. In 1967, participated in one of the more important classic festivals, the Festival of Sofía, Bulgaria. Best remembered for her rendition of "Un Jour, en Enfant" ("Ond Day, one Child"), representing France, she sang it to win the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
  Cimètiere de Bagneux, Bagneux, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Section 63, Jewish Section
   
• Bonaparte, Josephine De Beauharnais    b. June 23, 1763  d. May 29, 1814
  Empress of France, Queen Consort of Italy, May 1804 to May 1814. She is best remembered as being the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte of France. Born Marie Josephe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie in Les Trois-Ilets, Martinique to a wealthy white Creole family, her father owned a sugar plantation. When their estate was destroyed by several hurricanes in 1766, the family struggled financially. In October 1779 she went to France with her father to become the bride of Alexandre, the son of...[Read More] (Bio by: William Bjornstad)
  Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul, Rueil-Malmaison, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Boyer, Lucienne    b. August 18, 1901  d. December 6, 1983
  Entertainer. One of the brightest of all cabaret stars of the 1930s. She won the first-ever Grand Prix du Disque for her Parlez-moi d'amour. (Bio by: Edgar)
  Cimètiere de Bagneux, Bagneux, Departement des Hauts-de-Seine, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 21
   
• Breton, André    b. February 19, 1896  d. September 28, 1966
  Poet, Author, Essayist, Founder of Surrealism. André Breton was born in the Normandy village of Tinchebray, the only child of shopkeepers. His mother wanted him to become a physician and he went to Paris to study medicine. While there his interests turned to art and literature. He served as a medic during World War I and cared for soldiers who had been gassed or shell shocked. Influenced by the writings of Sigmund Freud, he took special note of these soldiers' psychological state and was...[Read More] (Bio by: Tigress)
  Batignolles Cemetery, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 31
   
• Breval, Lucienne    b. November 4, 1869  d. August 15, 1935
  Opera Singer. She was a leading dramatic soprano of late 19th. and early 20th. century Europe. Born Bertha Agnes Lisette Schilling, she studied piano in Lausanne and Geneva before embarking on a vocal career. Following study at the Paris Conservatory she made her 1892 Paris Opera debut as Selika from Giacomo Meyrbeer's "L'Africaine" and was to remain prima donna of that theatre until 1919. Lucienne sang a wide variety of roles though her signature pieces were to be the title leads of Gluck's "...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Batignolles Cemetery, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   

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