Monument list for Pere Lachaise (Pt4) Cemetery

Pere Lachaise (Pt4) Cemetery, Paris, France

Monument list

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1AmilletPierre Hippolyte Amillet1785451830id: PPLAmillet1
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32956012361Amillet (sometimes written Hamillet) was an army engineer; who was ADC to Napoléon at the battle of Waterloo. He later commanded the Paris Fire Brigade; and was the author of of book on the defence and attack of 'open' cities.
Amillet83 Amillet's father survived him; and placed the original gravestone.
Anne de la Piquelière de Messeme It is not clear why Anne Holmes is buried with Pierre Amillet; nor exactly who she was. According to the inscription; she was a poet and author of several works in English: Peter the Cruel; The Banished King; Don Carlos translated and altered from the German of Schiller; Pysche a splendid opera; etc. etc..

2AndrianoffHélène Andrianoff1857id: PPLAndrianoff32952811551

3AudebrandFrançois Celestin Audebrand1873481921id: PPLAudebrand1
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Anna Audebrand1873551928
Julie Noel1875471922
Marie Pradier
Suzanne Wolff1844841928

4Baltazar d'ArcyJacques Henry Baltazar d'Arcy1776711847id: PPLBaltArcy1
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32956216111Baltazar was commissioned in 1803; and was ADC to General Gouvion de St Cyr in 1807. From 1815 he commanded the 1st Infantry Regt of the Royal Guard; and by 1828 had risen to command the 2nd brigade of Infantry of the Royal Guard. He was also a gentleman of the bedchamber to the king.
N Baltazar1772651837 Military Superintendant
Genviève Baltazar1758691827 Wife of Henry Noël Baltazar
Henriette de Villars1811741885
Louise Brigitte Delacour1798861884
Louise Fossey1854581912 Wife of Richard Fossey
Richard Fossey1843631906 Inspector at Crédit Foncier de France
Marie Mathilde Lacroix1878481926 Wife of Alfred Lacroix
André Marel1859611920
Estelle Marel1824781902 Wife of Col. Abel Marel
Laure Gérard1805611866
Anne Noël Geneviève Préville de Villars1769561825

5BarbedienneFerdinand Barbedienne1810821892id: PPLBarbedienne32954911261Barbedienne was an industrialist who made his first fortune in the wall-paper industry; and then in monumental bronzes and objets d'art.

6BarrièreThéodore Barrière1823541877id: PPLThéoBarrière1
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32956511791Barrière was a highly popular playwright; who collaborated with many of the leading figures of the 19th century Parsian stage. Amongst his collaborations was a stage production of 'La Vie de Bohème'; with the original author Henri Mauger; the story upon which Puccini later based his opera 'La Bohème'.
Adèle Regnauld de Prébois1892 Barrière's mother-in-law was also a successful playwright and collaborated with her son-in-law in 1860 and 1867.
Paul François Legrand1861691930

7BattutJosephine Battut1854311885id: PPLPontChap32950811871
Jean Battut1844791923
Marie Josephine Battut1857471904 Wife of Jean Battut
Rose Jean François Battut1882181900
César Pontet-Chapelet1865861951
François Emile Pontet-Chapelet1854751929

8BeaucéJean Adolphe Beaucé1818571875id: PPLJeanBeaucé32956611501Beaucé was an illustrator and artist. He illustrated 'The Three Musketeers' for Dumas; and was an official army artist and followed the French campaigns in North Africa; the Middle East and Mexico.

9BlondeauAntoine Amedée Blondeau1803601863id: PPLAntBlondeau32956311631
Adrienne Valentine Blondeau1853351888
Arsène Modest Blondeau1819611880

10BondonMarie Louise Sophie Bondon1805361841id: PPLBondon32950313151
(widow) Bondon1799861885
Catherine Marguerite Bondon1774691843
François Louis Bondon1799851884
Henriette Bondon1840891929
Louis Baptiste Mabius Bondon184121843
Louis Marie Henry Gustave Bondon1816591875
Louis Maurice Bondon1861 age 15 days
Juliette Mignot1871721943
René Mignot1864571921

11BourgeoisE G Bourgeois1780541834id: PPLEGBourgeois32953811571Mayor of the oiriginal 5e arrondissement of central Paris; merchant and judge of the commercial court.
Marie Genevieve Bourgeois1789661855

12BulozFrançois Buloz1803741877id: PPLBuloz1
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32956411451In 1829; Buloz co-founded 'La revue des Deux Mondes' which he edited for the next 42 years. It was one of the most influential literary magazines of its period in France; including the greatest French writers such as Balzac and Hugo amongst its contributors.
Louis Jean François Buloz1842271869
Marie Euphrasine Christine Buloz1815741889
Paul Buloz183731840
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13CaillauxEugène Alexandre Caillaux1822741896id: PPLCaillaux1
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32952712061Engineer educated at the élite Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées; Caillaux was successively a Royalist member of the Lower and Upper Houses of the French Parliament; and Minister of Public Works in 1874; and of Finance in 1877. He was subsequently president of the most important French railway company; Paris-Lyon-Marseille (PLM).
Cécile Anna Caillaux1894111905
Edmond Caillaux1896471943
Paul Caillaux1864361900 Cavalry officer
Yvonne Caillaux1895831978 Wife of Edmond Caillaux
Marguerite d'Huningue1846681914 First husband: Maître Vavin.
Alfred François Robert Girard1858381896 Section commander in the Artillery
Joseph Caillaux1865791944 A leading Radical Republican politican; who presided over the French government from 1911-1912. He created income tax in France. In 1914 his wife assasinated the editor of 'Le Figaro'; and Joseph was forced to leave politics to defend his wife; with the collusion of the French president; Poincaré. His wife was acquitted; but Joseph himself was accused of collaboration with the enemy by his rival Clemenceau in 1918; but also acquitted. He regained ministerial office between the world wars (including as Minister of Finance); and remained a French Senator until 1940.
Cécile Anna Caillaux1825731898 First husband: Maître Girard. Donnet was a devout Protestant; and her marriage to the nominally-Catholic Caillaux required a religious compromise.

14CarrièsJean Carriès1855391894id: PPLJeanCarriès32953411121Jean-Joseph Carriès was born in Lyon. He was a renowned potter and sculptor; who mixed naturalism and symbolism in a style that verged on 'grotesque'.

15CartellierPierre Cartellier1757741831id: PPLCartellier1
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32957412111Also known was Pierre Cartelier or Carteixier. He was a goldsmith and Neoclassical sculptor; who received a number of important commissions from the Bonaparte family and the government for Versailles and various public monuments and palaces in Paris.
Alexandrine Françoise Charlotte Heim1806191825 Wife of F.J.Heim
Angelique Genèvieve Cartellier1769791848

16CheronnetAdolphe Cheronnet1805681873id: PPLAdCheronnet1
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32951511691French Engineer who worked principally in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Graduate of the prestigious Ecoles des Ponts et Chaussées.

17d'AgoultMarie Catherine Sophie d'Agoult1805711876no image32957011831The daughter of Franco-German aristocrats; she married comte Charles d'Agoult in 1827. They had 2 children; including Claire who married a fellow journalist Guy de Charnacé . In 1835 Marie left the comte for Franz Liszt and lived with him until her death. They had three children; of which the eldest married the politician Emile Ollivier who was briefly head of the French Government in 1869; and Cosima who married firstly the pianist and composer Hans von Bülow; and secondly the composer Richard Wagner. Marie published under the pen name Daniel Stern; and was a friend of Georges Sand.

18d'AvignonClotaire Philippe Gabriel d'Avignon1783591842id: PPLDavThir32957312341Engraver; artist and sign-writer
Aimée Clarisse d'Avignon1815641879
Joseph Gabriel d'Avignon1811631874 Engraver; artist and calligrapher
Josephine Lucie Moreau1833691902
Jacques Marie Thirion1779701849
Marie Antoinette Thirion1784391823

19DamptGeorges Dampt1858281886id: PPLDamptWis32951411751Journalist and author; and private secretary to the Education minister Paul Bert.
Lucien Dampt1912
Marie Gabrielle Hortense Wiszniewska1903 Founded the League of Women for International Disarmament in 1897

20DavidJacques Louis David1748771825id: PPLJacquesDavid1
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32957513991David was one of the greatest French painters; and the leader of the Neoclassical school of art. He was trained by several of the greatest 18th century painters; and closely linked to the revolutionary movement politicians and to Napoléon. In his political career; he voted for the execution of Louis XVI. Only his heart is buried in this tomb; as he body was refused entry into France after his death because of his act of regicide. His principal grave is in Brussels.
Pauline Jeanne Jeanin1786841870 Wife of Baron Général Jean-Baptiste Jeanin.
Laure Emilie Félicité Meunier1786771863 Wife of Baron Général Claude-Marie Meunier; who is also buried in this tomb. His name is inscribed on the south side of the Arc de Triomphe.
Léonie Marie David-Chassagnole1837561893 Wife of Jacques Louis Jules David-Chassagnole
Jacques Louis Jules David-Chassagnole1829571886 Painter; engraver and author; son of Eugène François David.
Charles Louis Jules David1783711854 Diplomat and archaeologist
François Eugène David1784461830 Married Anne Thérèse Virginie Chassagnole

21DavisonCharlotte Davison1842id: PPLDaviMil1
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32955312991Charlotte was probably the first cousin of Lt.Gen. Sir William Doyle and the daughter of Gen. Welbore Ellis Doyle; or possibly Sir William's own daughter. There are conflicting contemporary accounts. The Davison and Doyle tombs are side by side. She married Colonel Hugh Percy Davison of Swarland Park; Northumberland in 1812; the son of a close friend of Lord Nelson. Charlotte died in Auteuil in western Paris in 1842.
Flora Frances Rebecca de Milhau1815681883 Flora married the Vicomte Henri de Milhau in 1847 in Paris in a Protestant ceremony at the Oratoire du Louvre; followed by a Catholic ceremony at Notre Dame de Lorette.
Gaëtan Gabriel Honoré de Milhau1852471899 Gaetan committed suicide; and his widow chose the Franco-Polish poet Guillaume Apollinaire as tutor to their daughter in 1901-1902; one of the leaders of the French artistic avant-garde.
Henry Hugues Gabriel de Milhau1848731921
Henri Louis Gabriel de Milhau1812711883 In 1847; Henri resided at the château de la Balulbene near Toulouse.

22de BalzacHonoré de Balzac1799511850id: PPLBalzac1
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32955511461Honoré de Balzac was one of the most important; prolific and colourful literary figures of 19th century France.
Ewelina (evelyne) de Balzac1801811882 Of Polish -Lithaunian aristocratic descent; she met Balzac for the first time in 1833 when she was already the wife of the Count Hanski. Following the count's death in 1841; and after a prolonged courtship and friendship; she married Balzac in May 1850 in the Ukraine; 6 months before his death. Her brother was Henry Rzewuski; a Polish author who promoted the works of Sir Walter Scott in Poland. After Balzac's death; she was linked to the French writer Jules Champfleury and lived with the French artist Jean Gigoux.

23de BeaujourFélix de Beaujour1765711836id: PPLBeaujour32953911251Louis Auguste Félix de Beaujour was a French diplomat and politician; who served in Germany; Greece; the USA and Turkey. He was member of the French Parliament from 1831-34. His tomb is the highest in Paris (20m).

24de CambacèresDelphine de Cambacères1868id: PPLDelCambac1
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32956811761Delphine was believed to be one of the several illegitimate children of the Duc de Mornay; the illegitimate half-brother of Napoléon III and an illegitimate grandson of Talleyrand
Joseph Antoine de Cambacères1875 Died in Bordeaux. He appears to have been a candle merchant in Paris; and the brother of Jules de Cambacères.

25de Chasseloup-LaubatMarie Augustine Antoinette de Chasseloup-Laubat1824361860id: PPLChassLaub1
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32954811711Marie Augustine was a marquise twice-over; as she married the younger brother of her first husband; who inherited his title. It is unclear which of her husbands is buried in the grave with her! Both marriages were childless; and the title passed to the youngest brother.
Justin Prudent de Chasseloup-Laubat1847 The second and third marquis were brothers; and the sons of a distinguished Napoleonic general. The inscription mixes up the name of the second son (and second husband of Marie Augustine) with the dates and details of the eldest son (the first husband of Marie Augustine)! Justin Napoléon (1800-1847); the 2nd Marquis; was a member of the French Parliament and ambassador to the German Diet. He died in Frankfurt in 1847; and it is these details which are recorded. However the name given is Justin Prudent; the 2nd son and 3rd marquis and second husband of Marie Augustine. He was a general who served in the Crimea; and died in 1863.

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