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• , Louis IX    b. April 25, 1214  d. August 25, 1270
  Royalty, King of France, eldest son of Louis VIII and Blanche de Castile. During the 8th Crusade his army besieged Tunis and was seized by an epidemic. After receiving the news of his sons death of shigellosis Louis succumbed to the illness himself. Following his wish his heart remained in northern Africa and has since been lost. His...[Read More] (Bio by: Lutetia)
  La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: intestines
   
• , Saint Hereswitha
  Saint. She was a nun at the Convent of Chelles. died around 690 AD and her Feast Day is September 3rd. (Bio by: girlofcelje (inactive))
  Convent of Chelles, Chelles, Departement de Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Charles II d'Alencon    b. 1297  d. August 26, 1346
  French royalty, brother of King Philippe VI. Comte d'Alencon, de Chartres and Perche. Between April 1314 and September 1336 he was married to Jeanne de Joigny. In December 1336 he married Maria de la Cerda. He was killed in the Battle of Crecy. (Bio by: Lutetia)
  Saint Denis Basilique, Saint-Denis, Departement de Seine-Saint-Denis, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Abelard, Peter    b. 1079  d. April 21, 1142
  Religious Figure. His extensive correspondence with Heloise shed light on medieval French beliefs in romance, philosophy, and social mores. Born Peter le Pallet in the village of Pallet, about ten miles east of Nantes, in Brittany, France, he was the oldest son of a minor noble Breton family. His father encouraged him to study liberal arts and he excelled in philosophy, which at that time, consisted mostly of the logic of Aristotle and taught in Latin. Although he was encouraged to enter the...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 7, #1
   
• Adam, Adolphe Charles    b. July 24, 1803  d. May 3, 1856
  Composer. He is best known for the ballet "Giselle" (1841) and the Christmas carol "O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noel", 1847). His one-act comedy "Le chalet" (1834) is considered the first real French operetta. Adam was born in Paris, France, the son of an Alsatian pianist who tried to dissuade him from a musical career. He was an admittedly poor student at the Paris Conservatory, and after failing to win the "Prix de Rome" music scholarship, he worked as an organist and vaudeville songwriter...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 5
   
• Adam of St. Victor   d. January 14, 1146
  Religious Figure, Poet, Composer. The greatest creator of Victorine sequences, a genre of hymns that flourished in 12th Century France. His religious poetry was greatly admired and the music he set it to influenced the Notre Dame School. The name Adam of St. Victor is a posthumous appellation. He was probably born in Paris and spent most of his life as an Augustinian monk at the Notre Dame Cathedral. In 1107 he became its Cantor and from then on signed himself "Adam Precentor". But his...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Abbaye de Saint Victor (Defunct), Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Alain (Emile Chartier)    b. March 3, 1868  d. June 2, 1951
  Philosopher.
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 94, #3
   
• Alain, Jehan    b. February 3, 1911  d. June 20, 1940
  Composer. Skilled as an organist, he studied composition with composer Paul Dukas and organ with Marcel Dupre. His complex organ works including "Litanies", "Le Jardin Suspendu", and "Intermezzo", and encompassed such disparate influences as Baroque, Jazz, and the Far East. He joined the French Army during World War II, and was killed in action. (Bio by: Robert Edwards)
  Church of Saint Nicolas, Maisons-Laffitte, Departement des Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Alain, Marie-Claire   b. August 10, 1926  d. February 26, 2013
  Organist. A performer and teacher who had a long and prolific career, she is remembered as perhaps her generation's foremost interpreter of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The child of a distinguished musical family, she was raised with a love of Bach, manifested her talent early, and was a professional organist from age 11 when she became her father's assistant at the Church of St. Germain-en-Laye. Her formal education delayed by the German occupation, in 1944 she was finally able to...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Saint Germain-en-Laye Old Communal Cemetery, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Departement des Yvelines, Ile-de-France, France
   
• Alboni, Marietta    b. March 6, 1826  d. June 23, 1894
  Opera Singer. During a career that took her to the major opera houses of her day she was considered the leading contralto of late-19th. century Europe. Born Maria Anna Marzia Alboni, she was raised in central Italy, had early vocal training with Antonio Bagioli, and later was to be a student of Gioachino Rossini, personally instructed by him in his works. Alboni's professional debut came at Bologna in 1842, though accounts differ as to whether she bowed as Orsini in Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia"...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 66
   
• Alekhine, Alexandre    b. November 1, 1892  d. March 24, 1946
  Chess Master. Born in Moscow, Russian, he was the World Chess Champion from 1927 to 1935, and from 1936 to 1946. He defeated Cuban chess master José Raúl Capablanca in 1927 to win the world championship and defended it successfully (apart from a defeat by Dutch chess master Max Euwe in 1935) for nearly 20 years.
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Section 8, near Northern (main) path
   
• Alkan, Charles-Valentin    b. November 30, 1813  d. March 29, 1888
  Alkan was one of the finest pianists of his era, acknowledged as such by his friends and contemporaries Liszt and Chopin. Highly eccentric, he withdrew from the public gaze for a number of years, but returned in the 1870s to display his still dazzling skills. He was also a strikingly original composer, writing works of rhythmic, harmonic and executive complexity which remain highly engaging ö notably his 'Symphony' and 'Concerto' (both for piano solo), his set of variations ÎAesop's Feast'...[Read More] (Bio by: David Conway)
  Cause of death: crushed to death
  Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: 3rd division
   
• 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
   
• Allegret, Marc    b. December 23, 1900  d. November 3, 1973
  Motion Picture Director. Icon of the French Cinema. Directed over 60 films, and was also renowned for discovering and directing some of France's true cinema greats, including such well-known stars as Michèle Morgan, Jean-Louis Barraut,Raimu, Fernandel, Simone Simon, Gérard Philipe, Odette Joyeux, Louis Jourdan, Danièle Delorme, Roger Vadim, and Brigitte Bardot. Among his films were such well-known works as Fanny (with Raimu), Lac aux dames (with Simone Simon and Jean-Pierre Aumont), Zouzou (...[Read More]
  Cimetière des Gonards, Versailles, Departement des Yvelines, 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
   
• Alphand, Jean Charles    b. October 26, 1817  d. December 6, 1891
  Inventor. He was the father of Bois de Boulogne and Bois de Vincennes in Paris.
  Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 66
   
• Alphonse Laveran, Charles Louis    b. June 18, 1845  d. May 18, 1922
  French Medical Scientist. He received the first French Nobel Prize for Physiology (in the category of Medicine) in 1907 for his work on protozoa in causing diseases. He used half of the Prize money to found the Laboratory of Tropical Medicine at the Pasteur Institute. While visiting the malarial areas of France, he became the first scientist to express the view that the malarial parasite must be found outside the human body. This idea would later aid other scientists in discovering the...[Read More] (Bio by: Justiciero)
  Cimetière de Montparnasse, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 17 Ligne 10 Est Tombe 2 Sud
   
• Ampere, Andre Marie    b. January 20, 1775  d. June 10, 1836
  Scientist. Physicist who formulated the theory of electrodynamics and who had the "amp" (unit of electrical current) named after him.
  Cimetiere de Montmartre, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
  Plot: Division 30
   
• 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
   
• Annabella   b. July 14, 1907  d. September 18, 1996
  Actress. Born Suzanne Georgette Charpentier, she made her film debut in 1927 with a small part in "Napoléon." The following years she landed leading roles in films such as: "Dinner at the Ritz," "Suez," "Tonight We Raid Calais," "Bomber's Moon," and "13 Rue Madeleine," with James Cagney. She was married for a time to actor [Read More] (Bio by: MC)
  Cimetiere de Passy, Paris, Paris, Ile-de-France, France
   

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