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Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the Cimetière de Bagneux is located at 44, avenue Marx-Dormoy, in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine.
Opened in 1886, it was the burial place of Oscar Wilde until his remains were moved to Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Similarly, Jeanne Hébuterne, (1898-1920) the beautiful model and artist, who was Amedeo Modigliani's lover and mother of his only child, was originally buried here. Despondent over his death, Jeanne Hébuterne committed suicide and her family interred her at Cimetière de Bagneux until finally relenting and allowed her remains to be transferred to the Père Lachaise Cemetery in 1930 to rest beside Modigliani.
The cemetery has a military section as well as a large jewish section.
A few of the notables interred at Le Cimetière de Bagneux:
- Junie Astor (1912-1967), singer
- Barbara (Monique Serf) (1930-1997), singer
- Frida Boccara, (1940-1996), classical singer
- Lucienne Boyer (1903-1983), singer
- Martial Brigouleix (1903-1943), military hero
- Francis Carco (1886-1958), writer
- Marcel Dalio (1900-1983), actor
- Bella Darvi (1928-1971), French/Polish actress
- Léon Deubel (1879-1913), poet
- Jean-Jacques Gautier (1908-1986), author
- Gribouille (Marie-France Gaîté) (1941-1968), singer
- Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), writer
- André Leducq (1904-1980), cyclist
- Jules Laforgue (1860-1887), poet
- Jacqueline Maillan (1923-1992), actress
- Jacques Monod (1918-1985), actor
- Jean Paulhan (1884-1968), writer, critic
- Jehan Rictus (1867-1933), poet
- Jules Rimet (1875-1956), founder of the World Cup
- Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) the artist known as "Le Douanier"
- Alexander Salkind (1921-1997), film producer
- Jean Vigo (1905-1934), film director
See also: List of other famous cemeteries
Adapted from the article Cimetière de Bagneux (http://www.wikinfo.org/wiki.phtml?title=Cimeti%E8re_de_Bagneux), from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.