The Rouen Monumental Cemetery (french: Cimetière monumental de Rouen) is the most important cemetery of the Norman city of

Rouen Rouen (, ; or ) is a city on the River Seine in northern France. It is the prefecture of the Regions of France, region of Normandy (administrative region), Normandy and the Departments of France, department of Seine-Maritime. Formerly one of ...

, opened in 1828 and situated to the North-East of the town-centre. The entrance gate, the chapel and the monumental cross are the work of Charles Felix Maillet du Boullay.

Buried people

Charles Angrand Charles Angrand (19 April 1854 – 1 April 1926) was a French artist who gained renown for his Neo-Impressionist paintings and drawings. He was an important member of the Parisian avant-garde art scene in the late 1880s and early 1890s. Early li ...

* Henry Barbet * Albert Beaucamp * Michel Bérégovoy *

Édouard de Bergevin Édouard de Bergevin (18 July 1861 – 6 December 1925) was a French painter of the Rouen school. He was novelist Colette Yver's brother. He studied at the academy of painting of Rouen, with Frechon, Angrand and Joseph Delattre for fellow stud ...

François Adrien Boieldieu François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis. People with the given name * Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters" * Francis II of France, King o ...

(cœur) * Georges Bouctot *

Louis Bouilhet Louis Hyacinthe Bouilhet (27 May 1821 – 18 July 1869) was a French poet and dramatist. Bouilhet was born at Cany-Barville, Cany, Seine Inférieure. He was a schoolfellow of Gustave Flaubert, to whom he dedicated his first work, ''Miloenis'' ...

* Louis Auguste de Bourbel de Montpinçon *

Jean-Baptiste Cécille Jean-Baptiste Thomas Médée Cécille (16 October 1787, Rouen – 9 November 1873) was a French Admiral and politician who played an important role in the French intervention of Vietnam. He also circumnavigated the globe. Military career In 18 ...

Marcel Couchaux Marcel may refer to: People * Marcel (given name), people with the given name Marcel * Marcel (footballer, born August 1981), Marcel Silva Andrade, Brazilian midfielder * Marcel (footballer, born November 1981), Marcel Augusto Ortolan, Brazilian s ...

Joseph-Désiré Court Joseph-Désiré Court (14 September 1797, Rouen – 23 January 1865, Paris) was a French painter of historical subjects and portraits. Life and work He was a descendant of the portrait painter, Hyacinthe Rigaud, and displayed an early interest in ...

* Pierre Chirol * Jean Benoît Désiré Cochet *

Georges Dubosc Georges may refer to: Places *Georges River, New South Wales, Australia *Georges Quay (Dublin) *Georges Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania Other uses *Georges (name) * ''Georges'' (novel), a novel by Alexandre Dumas * "Georges" (song), a 1977 ...

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, , ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso ...

Suzanne Duchamp Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (20 October 1889 – 11 September 1963) was a French Dadaist painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsman. Her work was significant to the development of Paris Dada and modernism and her drawings and collages explore f ...

Raymond Duchamp-Villon Raymond Duchamp-Villon (5 November 1876 – 9 October 1918) was a French sculptor. Life and art Duchamp-Villon was born Pierre-Maurice-Raymond Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in the Normandy region of France, the second son of Eugène and Lucie Duch ...

Gustave Flaubert Gustave Flaubert ( , , ; 12 December 1821 – 8 May 1880) was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. According to the literary theorist Kornelije Kvas, "in Flauber ...

Jean Pierre Louis Girardin Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * J ...

Jacques Hébertot Jacques Hébertot (28 January 1886, Rouen - 19 June 1970, Paris) was the pseudonym of André Daviel. He was a French theater director, poet, journalist and publisher. The Théâtre Hébertot in Paris has been named after him since 1940. Early li ...

* Auguste Houzeau *

Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois (; 3 August 1777 – 29 September 1837) was a celebrated French painter, draftsman, engraver and writer. He became known as the "Norman Callot". He taught both his daughter Espérance Langlois and his son Polyclès ...

* Albert Lebourg *

Théodore-Éloi Lebreton Théodore-Éloi Lebreton (1 December 1803 – 12 December 1883) was a 19th-century autodidact French poet, chansonnier and bibliographer. Biography Born from a day laborer and a washerwoman, Lebreton entered at age seven in an indienne factor ...

* Léon-Jules Lemaître * Valérius Leteurtre *

Juste Lisch Jean Juste Gustave Lisch (10 June 1828 – 24 August 1910) was a French architect.Ferdinand Marrou Ferdinand is a Germanic name composed of the elements "protection", "peace" (PIE "to love, to make peace") or alternatively "journey, travel", Proto-Germanic , abstract noun from root "to fare, travel" (PIE , "to lead, pass over"), and "co ...

* Georges Métayer * Étienne Nétien * Émile Frédéric Nicolle *

Félix Archimède Pouchet Félix-Archimède Pouchet (26 August 1800 – 6 December 1872) was a French naturalist and a leading proponent of spontaneous generation of life from non-living materials, and as such an opponent of Louis Pasteur's germ theory. He was the father ...

* Raymond Quenedey *

Augustin Pouyer-Quertier Augustin Thomas Pouyer-Quertier, (2 September 1820 – 2 April 1891) was Minister for Finance of France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas reg ...

* Marie Antoine de Reiset * Jean Revel *

Louis Ricard Louis Pierre Hippolyte Ricard (17 March 1839 – 2 March 1921) was a wealthy French lawyer and liberal politician. He was Minister of Justice in 1892 and again in 1895–96. He is best known for steering through the 1898 law on workplace accidents ...

* Eugène Richard * Antoine Sénard *

Jacques Villon Jacques Villon (July 31, 1875 – June 9, 1963), also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. Early life Born Émile Méry Frédéric Gaston Duchamp in Damville, Eure, in Normandy, France, he came ...

* Francis Yard *

Colette Yver Colette Yver (28 July 1874 – 17 March 1953) was a French Roman Catholic writer from Normandy, the winner of the 1907 Prix Femina for her work ''Princesses de science''. Biography The daughter of a civil servant transferred to Rouen shortly a ...

Cremated people

Henri Gadeau de Kerville Henri Gadeau de Kerville (17 December 1858 in Rouen – 26 July 1940 in Bagnères-de-Luchon) was a French zoologist, entomologist, botanist and archeologist best known for his photographs of these subjects and especially for his work "''Les Insecte ...

* Patrice Quéréel

Bibliography

* J. Rivage, ''Le Cimetière monumental'', Cagniard, Rouen, 1864 *

Jean-Pierre Chaline Jean-Pierre Chaline (18 December 1939, Orléans), is a French contemporary historian, a specialist of the history of the French Third Republic. Biography The father of Olivier Chaline, a historian specializing in Central Europe in the modern era ...

, « L'Art funéraire expression d'une société ? L'exemple du Cimetière monumental de Rouen », dans ''Recueil d'études offert en hommage au Doyen M. de Boüard'', ''Annales de Normandie'', numéro spécial, Caen, 1982 * Jean-Pierre Chaline, « Mort d'un cimetière ? », in ''Bulletin des Amis des monuments rouennais'', 1993 * Jean-Pierre Chaline (dir.), ''Mémoire d'une ville, le Cimetière monumental de Rouen'', Société des Amis des monuments rouennais, Rouen, 1997 () *

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