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{{Short description|Cemetery in Paris, France}}
{{Infobox cemetery
| name        = Batignolles Cemetery
| image       = Batignolles - Entrance.JPG
| caption     = Entry to Batignolles Cemetery
| imagesize   = 240px
| established = 1833
| country     = France
| location    = [[Paris]]
| coordinates = {{coord|48.897|2.314|display=inline,title}}
| type        = Public, [[non-denominational]]
| style       =
| owner       = Mairie de Paris
| size        = {{convert|11|ha|acre}}
| interments  = 
| website     = 
| findagraveid= 638999
}}
The '''Batignolles Cemetery''' ({{langx|fr|Cimetière des [[Batignolles]]}}) is a [[cemetery]] in Paris.

==History==
[[File:Batignolles - Perepherique.JPG|thumb|Boulevard Péripherique over Batignolles Cemetery]]
Batignolles Cemetery opened on 22 August 1833. Part of the cemetery had to be closed, and the graves moved because of the construction of the great ring road ([[Boulevard Périphérique]], between the exits of Porte de Clichy and Porte de Saint-Ouen).

==Description==
Extending over nearly eleven hectares, slightly larger than the [[Montmartre Cemetery]], Batignolles Cemetery contains approximately fifteen thousand graves, and it is the fourth cemetery ''intra muros'' of Paris, in terms of the number of graves.  In terms of land area, only the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] and the [[Montparnasse Cemetery]] are larger.<ref name=MAIRIEPARIS>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.paris.fr/portail/Parcs/Portal.lut?page_id=1767 Paris Townhall website; ''Memoirs of Cora Pearl''; Granada Publishing; 1984] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207030221/http://www.paris.fr/portail/Parcs/Portal.lut?page_id=1767 |date=December 7, 2008 }}</ref>  Within its perimeter, there are approximately nine hundred mature trees, mostly chestnuts and maples.
Because of the construction of apartment buildings next to the cemetery, the Avenue des Fortifications is no longer accessible (from 2009-?).

==Notable burials==
{{category see also |Burials at Batignolles Cemetery}}
Batignolles is now the home for the earthly remains of  [[André Barsacq]], [[Alexandre Benois]], [[André Breton]], [[Alfred Bruneau]], [[Lucienne Bréval]], [[Gaston Calmette]], [[Blaise Cendrars]], [[Clémentine de Vère]], [[Léon Dierx]], [[Pierre Dreyfus]], [[Marguerite Durand]], [[Hélène Dutrieu]],  [[Jean L'Herminier]], [[Cora Pearl]], [[Joséphin Péladan]], [[Benjamin Péret]], [[Ray Ventura (pianist)|Ray Ventura]], [[Paul Vidal]], [[Édouard Vuillard]] and [[André Zirnheld]] (in the family grave), among others like [[Henri Negresco]] founder of the Hotel Negresco.

Before the opening of [[Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery]] the cemetery was a popular burial place for members of the [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian Orthodox]] community. Many are buried in the ''carré russe-orthodoxe'', division 25. Among them [[Léon Bakst]], [[Sergei Lyapunov]], [[Pavel Milyukov]] and [[Pavel Ryabushinsky]]. [[Feodor Chaliapin]] was buried here but his remains were later reburied in [[Novodevichy Cemetery]] in [[Moscow]].

The grave of [[Paul Verlaine]] was originally in division 20 but had to be moved to the roundabout (at the crossing of Avenue Principale and Avenue Transversale).

The cemetery contains one [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission|British Commonwealth war grave]], that of a [[Royal Air Force]] officer of 1918.<ref name=cwgc>[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/25400/CITY%20OF%20PARIS%20CEMETERY,%20BATIGNOLLES,%20CLICHY] CWGC Cemetery Report. Retrieved 31 August 2012.</ref>

==Location==
[[Image:Allée division 13.jpg|thumb|right|View of the cemetery.]]
The cemetery is located in the [[Épinettes]] district, in the northeastern part of the [[17th arrondissement of Paris|17th arrondissement]]. The entry to the cemetery is at the intersection of Rue Saint-Just and Avenue du Cimetière des Batignolles. The cemetery is lodged between the Boulevard Périphérique and the Lycée International Honoré de Balzac.

==Public transport==
{{rint|paris|m|13}} {{rint|paris|r|C}} The Batignolles Cemetery is a short walk from the [[Porte de Clichy]] station, which can be reached by taking [[Paris Métro Line 13|line 13]] or the [[RER C|C line]] commuter train.
Other nearby [[Paris Métro|Métro]] stations are [[Brochant (Paris Métro)|Brochant]], [[Mairie de Clichy (Paris Métro)|Mairie de Clichy]] and [[Porte de Saint-Ouen (Paris Métro)|Porte de Saint-Ouen]].

{{rint|paris|b}} The Batignolles Cemetery is also served by bus lines 54, 74, 138, 173, PC

There are [[Vélib']] stations at Avenue de la Porte de Clichy (17014 and 17114) and at Boulevard Berthier (17106).

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Portal|France}}
{{Commons category|Cimetière des Batignolles}}

==External links==
* {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160920021551/http://www.mairie17.paris.fr/mairie17/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=460 Batignolles Cemetery on the Mairie of the 17th arrondissement website]
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.landrucimetieres.fr/spip/spip.php?article272 Batignolles Cemetery on the Cimetières de France et d'ailleurs website]
* {{in lang|fr}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160926103525/http://equipement.paris.fr/cimetiere-des-batignolles-4483 Batignolles Cemetery on the Mairie of Paris website (including map)]
* {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=1408 Plan of Batignolles Cemetery on the APPL website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305030437/http://www.appl-lachaise.net/appl/article.php3?id_article=1408 |date=2016-03-05 }}

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