The Saint-Vincent Cemetery at 6 rue Lucien-Gaulard (18th arrondissement), opened on January 5, 1831. It is one of the 3 cemeteries of the Butte Montmartre with the Cemetery of Calvaire, next to the church of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, and the cemetery of the North, commonly called cemetery of Montmartre. The latter is halfway up the Butte, on the west side.
A steep cemetery with a confidential character
The Saint-Vincent Cemetery is a small cemetery (900 graves) hidden at the bottom of the Montmartre hill (north side of the 18th arrondissement), which offers a pleasant walk, in a quiet and original way the unique atmosphere of the Parisian cemeteries.
It is built on the slope which gives a nice perspective on the Dome of the Sacred Heart. The charm of its flowered alleys will seize you as soon as you enter.
You will discover among others some personalities buried in this cemetery. Among the most famous are Marcel Aymé, Marcel Carné or Maurice Utrillo.
The cemetery offers beautiful Restoration style graves of great Montmartre families, such as Tourlaque, Labat, Muller, Lavigne, Cottin, Lécuyer, Nicolet or Picard. Most of their graves are lined up along the main avenue, in the 11th division.
At the beginning of the 1900s, it was the divisions located closest to the new entrance at 6 rue Lucien-Gaulard (the old one was on rue Saint-Vincent), in the lower part, along avenue Caulaincourt, that seemed to attract the concessionaires (7th, 8th and 9th divisions). This is where most of the statuary is found.
Before 1989-1990, 117 robinieres had shaded the Saint-Vincent cemetery for several decades. They had to be replaced by 124 healthy trees of 17 different species, including many small cypresses with yellow flowers in clusters.
Map of the Saint-Vincent Cemetery and location of the graves
You can discover the map of the cemetery and the location of the most popular personalities' graves by clicking on Map of Saint Vincent de Montmartre Cemetery.
List of personalities buried in Saint-Vincent Cemetery
- Jules Adler (1865-1952), painter nicknamed "the painter of the humble
- Marcel Aymé (1902-1967), writer
- Harry Baur (1880-1943), actor
- Jacques Edmé Bazin (1762-1833), mayor of Montmartre and founder of this cemetery in 1831
- Eugène Boudin (1824-1898), painter
- Pierre Joseph Bussoz (1872-1958), inventor of the Bussophone, which looks like a Jukebox.
- Marcel Carné (1906-1996), film director and Roland Lesaffre (1927-2009), actor
- Louis-Robert Carrier-Belleuse (1848-1913), painter and sculptor
- Jules Chéret (1836-1932), poster artist
- Roland Dorgelès (1885-1973), writer
- René Dumesnil (1879-1967), musician and literary critic
- André Gabriello (1896-1975), actor, buried with his daughter Suzanne Gabriello (1932-1992), actress and singer
- Gazi le Tatar, artist name of Gazi Igna Ghirei (ca 1900-1975), painter and poet from Montmartre
- Émile Goudeau (1849-1906), journalist and poet
- Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), composer
- Désiré-Émile Inghelbrecht (1880-1965), composer and conductor
- Roger Lacourière (1892-1966), engraver and printer
- Frédéric Lagnau (1967-2010), composer, pianist, conductor at the Opéra Garnier
- Gaston Méliès (1852-1915), director, brother of Georges Méliès
- Michou (1931-2020), cabaret director
- Gen Paul (1895-1975), painter
- Claude Pinoteau (1925-2012), film director
- Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952), painter
- Nicolas Platon-Argyriades (1888-1968), ceramist
- Lazare Pytkowicz (1928-2004), resistance fighter, Companion of the Liberation
- Gustave Victor Quinson (1863-1943), playwright and theater director
- Max Révol (1894-1967), actor
- Xavier Schoellkopf (1869-1911), art nouveau architect
- Alain Romans (1905-1988), composer (jazz, cinema)
- Paul Sédir (Yvon Le Loup) (1871-1926), writer, philosopher
- Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), painter
- Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955), painter, buried with his wife Lucie
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