Cimetière des Gonards

The Cimetière des Gonards ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}) is the largest cemetery in Versailles on the outskirts of Paris. It began operations in 1879. The cemetery covers an area of Template:Convert and contains more than 12,000 graves.

Description

This is a rurally landscaped cemetery, the upper part of which is laid out with walks and planted with trees. The Devos-Logie and Mirand-Devos Chapels were designed by the architect Hector Guimard in 1894.

There is a section for military graves, including 534 German military graves from the two World Wars, marked by a monument and stelae of pink granite, and a war graves section containing the graves of 181 British Commonwealth service personnel of both World Wars.<ref name=cwgc>[1] CWGC Cemetery Report, accessed 6 January 2013.</ref> In the highest part is a monument to those French service personnel who are buried in the graveyards of North Africa.

The cemetery also contains a Jewish area (sections "L sud" and "L ouest"), and many English and American Protestant burials.

The notorious executed murderers Henri Désiré Landru and Eugène Weidmann are buried here, in unmarked graves.<ref>Le cimetière des Gonards</ref>

Notable burials

Grave of Edith Wharton.

• Marc Allégret (1900–1973), film director
• Abolhassan Banisadr (1933–2021), first president of the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Template:Ill (1864–1955), general
• Louis Blériot (1872–1936), pioneer aviator
• Princess Éléonore-Justine Bonaparte (1832–1905)
• Princess Marie-Félix Bonaparte (1859–1882)
• Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, (1815–1881)
• Prince Roland Bonaparte (1858–1924)
• Louise Bryant (1885–1936), American journalist and author
• Louis Cartier (1875–1942), jeweller, watchmaker
• Louis-François Cartier (1819–1904), jeweller
• Template:Ill (1884–1980), actress
• Gabriel Monod (1844–1912), historian
• Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), poet, and Gabriel Yturri (1860–1905), his secretary and lover
• Armand Renaud (1836–1895), poet
• Georges Saillard (1877–1967), actor
• Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American writer

Gallery

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  Grave of Louise Bryant
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  Grave of poet Robert de Montesquiou
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  Monument to the French of North Africa
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  German military graves
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  Jewish gravestone

External links

• Le cimetière des Gonards Template:In lang