Cimetière des Gonards

The Cimetière des Gonards is the largest

This is a rurally landscaped cemetery, the upper part of which is laid out with walks and planted with trees. The Devos-Logie and Mirand-Devos Chapels were designed by the architect Hector Guimard in 1894.

There is a section for military graves, including 534 German military graves from the two World Wars, marked by a monument and stelae of pink granite, and a war graves section containing the graves of 181 British Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars.^[1] In the highest part is a monument to those French service personnel who are buried in the graveyards of North Africa.

The cemetery also contains a Jewish area (sections "L sud" and "L ouest"), and many English and American Protestant burials.

The notorious executed murderers

• Marc Allégret (1900–1973), film director
• Abolhassan Banisadr (1933–2021), first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Louis Bernard (1864–1955), general
• Louis Blériot (1872–1936), pioneer aviator
• Princess Éléonore-Justine Bonaparte (1832–1905)
• Princess Marie-Félix Bonaparte (1859–1882)
• Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte
  , (1815–1881)
• Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924)
• Louise Bryant (1885–1936), American journalist and author
• Louis Cartier (1875–1942), jeweller, watchmaker
• Louis-François Cartier (1819–1904), jeweller
• Hélène Dieudonné (1884–1980), actress
• Gabriel Monod (1844–1912), historian
• Gabriel Yturri
  (1860–1905), his secretary and lover
• Armand Renaud (1836–1895), poet
• Georges Saillard (1877–1967), actor
• Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American writer

Gallery

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  Grave of Louise Bryant
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  Grave of poet Robert de Montesquiou
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  Monument to the French of North Africa
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  German military graves
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  Jewish gravestone

References

External links

• Le cimetière des Gonards (in French)

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