Editing Passy Cemetery

{{Short description|Cemetery in Paris, France}}
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{{Infobox cemetery
| name        = Passy Cemetery
| image       = File:Aerial view of Cimetière de Passy.jpg
| imagesize   = 240px
| caption     = Aerial view of Passy Cemetery
| map_type    = Paris
| map_size    =
| map_caption = Passy in Paris
| established = 1820
| country     = France
| location    = [[Passy]], Paris
| coordinates = {{coord|48|51|45|N|2|17|07|E|region:FR_scale:2000|display=inline,title}}
| type        = Public
| style       =
| owner       = Mairie de Paris
| size        = {{convert|1.75|ha|acre}}
| graves      = 2600
| website     = [http://equipement.paris.fr/cimetiere-de-passy-4481 Passy cemetery on the Mairie de Paris]
| findagraveid= 638993
}}
'''Passy Cemetery''' ({{langx|fr|Cimetière de Passy}}) is a small [[cemetery]] in [[Passy]], in the [[16th arrondissement of Paris]], [[France]].

==History==
The current cemetery replaced the old cemetery (''l'ancien cimetière communal de Passy'', located on Rue Lekain), which was closed in 1802.{{citation needed|date = November 2024}}

In the early 19th century, on the orders of [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon I]], Emperor of the French, all the cemeteries in Paris were replaced by several [[rural cemetery|large new ones]] outside the precincts of the capital. [[Montmartre Cemetery]] was built in the north, [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in the east, and [[Montparnasse Cemetery]] in the south. Passy Cemetery was a later addition, but has its origins in the same edict.{{citation needed|date = November 2024}}

The current entrance (designed by René Berger) was built in 1934. The retaining wall of the cemetery is adorned with a [[bas relief]] (by Louis Janthial) commemorating the soldiers who fell in [[World War I]].{{citation needed|date = November 2024}}

==Notes==
Opened in 1820 in the expensive residential and commercial districts of the [[Rive Droite|Right Bank]] near the ''[[Champs-Élysées]]'', by 1874 the small Passy Cemetery had become the aristocratic [[necropolis]] of Paris. It is the only cemetery in Paris to have a heated waiting-room.

Sheltered by a bower of [[chestnut]] trees, the cemetery is in the shadow of the [[Eiffel Tower]].

The cemetery was once the home of a statue by [[Xawery Dunikowski|Dunikowski]] titled ''The Soul Escaping the Body''. It was on top of the ceremonial grave of [[Antoine de Paris|Antoni Cierplikowski]]. The statue was known by many but was removed when the grave was cleared in 2004.<ref>[http://pariscemeteries.blogspot.nl/2011/07/mystery-of-antoine-cierplikowski-passy.html The Mystery of Antoine Cierplikowski]</ref>

It is known as a small but well visited cemetery (Petit mais bien fréquenté).

==Notable interments==
Among its more famous burials are:
<!-- *[[Annabella (actress)|Annabella]] (1907–1996), actress, she is actually interred in [[Passy, Haute-Savoie]].-->
* [[Bao Dai|Bảo Đại]] (1913–1997), the last Emperor of [[Vietnam]]
* [[Natalie Clifford Barney]] (1876–1972), Notable author, salonist and lesbian socialite of the [[Belle Époque]]
* [[Jean-Louis Barrault]] (1910–1994), actor and director; buried with his wife, the actress [[Madeleine Renaud]]
* [[Louis-Ernest Barrias]] (1841–1905), sculptor
* [[Jeanne Julia Bartet]] (1854–1941), actress
* [[Marie Bashkirtseff]] (1858–1884), Ukrainian painter famous for her published journal; her tomb is a recreation of her studio and has been declared a historical monument by the government of France
* [[Maurice Bellonte]] (1896–1983), pioneering aviator, as is his flight companion [[Dieudonné Costes]]
* [[James Gordon Bennett Jr.]] (1848–1918), American newspaper publisher, sportsman
* [[Tristan Bernard]] (1866–1947), playwright and novelist
* [[Henri Bernstein]] (1876–1953), actor
* [[Jacques-Émile Blanche|Jacques-Emile Blanche]] (1861-1942), painter
* [[Esprit Blanche]] (1796-1852), psychiatrist and grandfather of painter Jacques-Emile Blanche.
*[[Isabella Eugénie Boyer]] (1841–1904), French-American model and heiress
* [[Natalia Brasova|Princess Brasova]] (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov) (1880–1952), wife of [[Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia|Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov]]
* [[George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov|George, Count Brasov]] (1910–1931), son of [[Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia|Grand Duke Mikhail Romanov]] and [[Natalia Brasova|Princess Brasova]] (Natalia Sheremetyev-Romanov)
* [[Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases|Emmanuel de Las Cases]] (1766–1842), historian
* [[Louis Castex]] (1896–1968), aviator, politician, resistance fighter
* [[Dieudonné Costes]] (1896–1973), pioneering aviator, as is his flight companion [[Maurice Bellonte]]
* [[Emmanuelle de Dampierre]] (1913–2012), first wife of [[Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia]]
* [[Marcel Dassault]] (1892–1986), engineer, founder of [[Dassault Aviation]]
* [[Claude Debussy]] (1862–1918), composer
* [[Maxime Dethomas]] (1867–1929), artist
* [[Ghislaine Dommanget]] (1900–1991), Princess of [[Monaco]]
* [[Michel Droit]] (1923–2000), novelist, member of the {{Lang|fr|[[Académie française]]|italic=no}}
* [[Henry Farman]] (1874–1958), champion cyclist and aviator
* [[Edgar Faure]] (1908–1988), statesman and World War II [[French Resistance|resistance]] fighter
* [[Gabriel Fauré]] (1845–1924), composer
* [[Fernandel]] (Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin) (1903–1971), comedy actor
* [[Maurice Gamelin]] (1872–1958), supreme commander of French armed forces 1939–1940
* [[Maurice Genevoix]] (1890–1980), novelist; his remains were transferred to the [[Panthéon (Paris)|Panthéon]] in 2020
* [[Rosemonde Gérard]] (1871–1953), poet and playwright
* [[Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu|Virgil Gheorghiu]], (1916–1992), novelist
* [[Farideh Ghotbi]] (also known as Farideh Diba) (1921–2000), the mother of the former [[Shahbanu]] of Iran, [[Farah Pahlavi|Farah Diba]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2001-06-12 |title=Shah's daughter 'could not stand' exile |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/1384839.stm |access-date=2022-05-23}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last= |date=2001-06-12 |title=Leila Pahlavi; Deposed Shah's Daughter |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jun-12-me-9491-story.html |access-date=2022-05-23 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Jean Giraudoux]] (1882–1944), playwright, soldier, and statesman
* [[Hubert de Givenchy]] (1927–2018), fashion designer
* [[Anna Gould]] (1878–1961), socialite, daughter of financier [[Jay Gould]]
* Arlette [[Gueudet]] (1919–2012), widow of industrialist Robert Gueudet
* [[Jacques Guerlain]] (1874–1963), perfume creator from the House "[[Guerlain]]" in Paris
* [[Antonio Guzmán Blanco]] (1829–1899), Venezuelan politician and president
* [[Gabriel Hanotaux]] (1853–1944), statesman and historian
* [[Henriette Henriot]] (1857–1944), actress and artist's model
* [[Paul Hervieu]] (1857–1915), dramatist and novelist
* [[Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi]] (1920–2005), economist, Iranian statesman
* [[Jeanne Hugo]] (1869–1941), socialite and granddaughter of [[Victor Hugo]]
* [[Jacques Ibert]] (1890–1962), composer
* [[Paul Landowski]] (1875–1961), architect and sculptor
* [[Hector Lefuel]] (1810–1880), architect of the "[[Nouveau Louvre]]" expansion of the [[Louvre Palace]]<ref>Kirkland, Stephanie (22 December 2011). [http://stephanekirkland.com/passy-cemetery/ "Paris Places: Passy Cemetery]. Retrieved 4 March 2014.</ref>
* [[Joseph Florimond Loubat]] (1831–1927), bibliophile, antiquarian, sportsman, and philanthropist
* [[Albéric Magnard]] (1865–1914), composer
* [[Georges Mandel]] (1885–1944), statesman, French Resistance during World War II
* [[Édouard Manet]] (1832–1883), [[Realism (arts)|realist]] and [[impressionist]] painter
* [[André Messager]] (1853–1929), composer and conductor
* [[Alexandre Millerand]] (1859–1943), President of France
* [[Octave Mirbeau]] (1848–1917), anarchist, art critic, and novelist
* [[Berthe Morisot]] (1841–1895), [[impressionist]] painter
* [[Togrul Narimanbekov]] (1930–2013), [[Azerbaijani people|Azerbaijani]] painter
* [[Joseph O'Kelly]] (1828–1885), [[Henri O'Kelly]] sr. (1859–1938), and Henri O'Kelly jr. (1881–1922), Franco-Irish composers and musicians
* [[Leila Pahlavi]] (1970–2001), Princess Leila of Iran, daughter of the last [[Mohammad Reza Pahlavi|Shah of Iran]] and [[Farah Pahlavi|Farah Diba]]<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":0" />
* [[Gabrielle Réjane]] (1856–1920), actress
* [[Madeleine Renaud]] (1900–1994), actress; buried with her husband, the actor and director [[Jean-Louis Barrault]]
* [[Marcel Renault]] (1872–1903), industrialist, racing driver, co-founder of [[Renault]] motor company
* [[Maurice Rostand]] (1891–1968), playwright
* [[Constantin Rozanoff]] (1905–1954), colonel, test pilot
* [[Haroun Tazieff]] (1914–1998), [[vulcanologist]]
* [[Renée Vivien]] (1877–1909), writer, poet
* [[Pearl White]] (1889–1938), American [[silent film]] star, famous for doing her own stunts in her serials ''[[The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|The Perils of Pauline]]''
* [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]] (1908–1949), Grand Prix race driver
<gallery widths="200px" heights="200px" perrow="5">
Image:Mo cuu hoang Bao Dai.jpg|Grave of [[Bảo Đại]], last Emperor of Vietnam
Image:ManetPassy.jpg|Grave of [[Édouard Manet]]
File:Debussy's grave.jpg|Grave of [[Claude Debussy]]
Image:Leila Pahlavi.jpg|Grave of [[Leila Pahlavi]]
Antigua tumba de Guzmán Blanco. Cementerio de Passy, París.jpg|Grave of [[Antonio Guzmán Blanco]]
Image:Grave monument of Fernandel.JPG|Grave monument of [[Fernandel]]
File:Guerlain_Mausoleum.jpg|Mausoleum of the [[Guerlain]] clan
File:Bashkirtseff-grave.jpg|Tomb of [[Marie Bashkirtseff]], a recreation of her studio
</gallery>

==Location==
The entrance of the cemetery is located at 2, Rue du Commandant Schlœsing. The street in which it is situated is named for a [[Free French Air Force#One squadron, two identities: GC 2/7 (No26 "Nice" Squadron) (1943–1945)|Free French]] pilot, Squadron Leader [[:fr:Jacques-Henri Schloesing|Jacques-Henri Schlœsing]] (1919–1944), who flew with the wartime RAF until killed in action, the day that Paris was liberated.

The cemetery is behind the [[Trocadéro, Paris|Trocadéro]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|France}}
{{Commons category|Cimetière de Passy}}
* {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20170920143119/http://equipement.paris.fr/cimetiere-de-passy-4481 Passy Cemetery on the Mairie de Paris website (with plan)]
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article273 Passy Cemetery on the Cimetiéres de France et d'Ailleurs website]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110110032834/http://www.pariscemeteries.com/pages/passy.html Information and help in touring Passy cemetery.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070612082724/http://www.pariscemeteries.com/pagefoto/passy_fot.html Photographs of Passy cemetery] Documenting funerary statuary in Paris cemeteries; on pariscemeteries.com

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