Charnier is a French surname, and a French word for
charnel house
A charnel house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a pla ...
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Charnier or ''variation'', may also refer to:
People
* Claude Charnier, Canadian musician and member of ''
Headscan''
* Daniel Charnier, a Huguenot; see
List of Huguenots
Some notable French Huguenots or people with French Huguenot ancestry include:
Actors and film-makers
* James Agee (1909–1955), American screenwriter, Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
*René Allio (1924–1995), French film-maker.
* Humphrey B ...
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Madeleine Charnier (1919—2002), a French zoologist
Fictional characters
* Alain Charnier, a fictional character from the film
''The French Connection'' (film)
Other uses
*
The Charnel House (french: link=no, Le Charnier), a Picasso painting that he painted while living in France
* ''Les Charniers'' ( oc, link=no, Li Cadarau), an 1884 work by
Valère Bernard
Valère Bernard ( oc, Valèri Bernard; 10 February 1860 – 6 October 1936) was a Provençal painter, engraver, novelist and poet, writing in the Occitan language. He left an important body of graphic work, and his works continued to be publis ...
published in French and Occitan
See also
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Pointe Rochers Charniers, Cottian Alps, France; a mountain
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Charnel House (disambiguation)
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Tomb (disambiguation)
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Crypt (disambiguation)
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Catacomb (disambiguation)
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