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Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
- Oscar WildeOscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde entered the world on the 16th of October 1854 at 21 Westland Row in Dublin. His mother Jane, née Elgee, wrote poetry…
- Eléonore Denuelle de La PlaigneLouise Catherine Eléonore Denuelle de la Plaigne entered the world on the 13th of September 1787. She grew up in a middle-class family that offered no royal…
- Max ErnstMax Ernst was born in the town of Brühl, south of Cologne, on the 2nd of April 1891. He grew up as the third child among nine siblings in a middle-class…
- MolièreJean Poquelin was born in Paris shortly before his christening on the 15th of January 1622. A maid who saw him for the first time exclaimed Le nez, a…
- Gioachino RossiniOn the 29th of February 1792, a boy named Gioachino Antonio Rossini was born in Pesaro. His father Giuseppe played the trumpet and horn while his mother Anna…
- Eugène BurnoufEugène Burnouf entered the world on the 8th of April 1801 within the city of Paris. His father Jean-Louis Burnouf held a position as a professor and…
- Jim MorrisonJames Douglas Morrison was born on the 8th of December 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His father served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and…
- Eugène DelacroixEugène Delacroix was born on the 26th of April 1798 at Charenton-Saint-Maurice in Seine, near Paris. His mother Victoire Oeben was the daughter of a…
- Édouard DaladierÉdouard Daladier was born in Carpentras, a town in the Vaucluse region of France, on the 18th of June 1884. He grew up as the son of a village baker and…
- Jacques-Louis DavidJacques-Louis David was born on the 30th of August 1748 into a prosperous family in Paris. When he was about nine years old, his father died in a duel.
- Joachim MuratJoachim Murat was born on the 25th of March 1767 in La Bastide-Fortunière, a small village in southwestern France. His father Pierre Murat-Jordy worked as an…
- Édouard DetailleJean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille entered the world on the 5th of October 1848 in Paris. He grew up in Picardy within a prosperous military family.
- Paul BarrasPaul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras was born at Fox-Amphoux on the 30th of June 1755. He descended from a noble family of Provence and entered the…
- Antoine-Jean GrosAntoine-Jean Gros entered the world on the 16th of March 1771 in Paris. His father Jean-Antoine Gros worked as a miniature painter while his mother…
- Emmanuel Joseph SieyèsEmmanuel Joseph Sieyès was born on the 3rd of May 1748 in Fréjus, a southern French town. He entered the seminary of Saint-Sulpice in Paris and spent ten…
- Louis-Guillaume OttoLudwig Otto arrived at the University of Strasbourg in 1772 to study under Christoph Wilhelm von Koch. He earned degrees in Modern Languages and Law while…
- Joseph FourierJean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier was born on the 21st of March 1768 in Auxerre, Burgundy. His father worked as a tailor and died when Fourier was only nine years…
- Charles-Pierre AugereauCharles-Pierre Augereau was born in the Faubourg Saint-Marceau district of Paris on the 21st of October 1757. His father worked as a fruit seller, though…
- Jean-Baptiste SayJean-Baptiste Say entered the world on the 5th of January 1767 in the city of Lyon. His father Jean-Etienne Say came from a Protestant family that had moved…
- Charles de SteubenCharles de Steuben stood at the ducal court in Weimar as a fourteen-year-old Page during the summer of 1802. He had traveled from Saint Petersburg with Grand…
- Charles-François LebrunCharles-François Lebrun was born in Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin on the 19th of March 1739. He studied philosophy at the Collège de Navarre before entering public…
- Jean-Jacques-Régis de CambacérèsJean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès entered the world on the 18th of October 1753 in Montpellier. He was born into a family of legal nobility, though his…
- Louis ViscontiLouis Tullius Joachim Visconti entered the world on the 11th of February 1791 in Rome. His father Ennio Quirino Visconti served as a curator of antiquities…
- Alexandre Colonna-WalewskiOn the 4th of May 1810, a boy named Alexandre Florian Joseph Colonna Walewski drew his first breath at Walewice near Warsaw.
- Gustave DoréOn the 6th of January 1832, Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré was born in Strasbourg. At age fifteen, he began working as a caricaturist for Le journal pour…
- Michel NeyMichel Ney was born in the town of Sarrelouis on the 10th of January 1769. He grew up as the second son of Pierre Ney, a master cooper who had served in the…
- Jules MicheletJules Michelet was born on the 21st of August 1798 in Paris. His father worked as a master printer, and young Jules often assisted him with his work.