Monaco Cemetery
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| Country | Monaco |
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| Type | Public, non-denominational |
| Website | www |
| Find a Grave | Monaco Cemetery |
The Monaco Cemetery (French: Cimetière de Monaco) is a cemetery in La Colle, Principality of Monaco.[1]
Overview
[edit | edit source]The cemetery contained 2350 tombs until 2014, when 198 more were built.[1] It is open to the public from 8am to 7pm in the summer and from 8am to 6pm in the winter.[1]
Many sculptures in the cemetery were designed by Umberto Bassignani.[2]
Since 2008, two computer screens at the entry gate enable visitors to locate specific tombs before they go in.[3]
On 27 August 2015 Albert II, Prince of Monaco dedicated a memorial stele in honour of foreign Jews who were taken from Monegasque hotels by the Nazis during the night of 27–28 August 1942.[4]
Notable burials
[edit | edit source]- Josephine Baker, American-French entertainer, civil rights activist, and war heroine and her fourth husband, composer Jo Bouillon.[5] She was later moved in 2021 to the Panthéon in Paris.[6]
- Marie Bell and her husband Jean Chevrier, actors[5]
- Jules Bianchi, Formula One driver
- Anthony Burgess, writer
- Silas Burroughs, pharmacist
- Cécile Chaminade, composer
- Lady Anne Blanche Alice Coventry (1874–1956) – Third daughter of George William Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry, and wife of Prince Victor Duleep Singh, known after marriage as Princess Victor Duleep Singh.
- Prince Victor Duleep Singh (1866–1918) – Eldest son of Maharaja Duleep Singh and godson of Queen Victoria.
- Princess Irene Duleep Singh Villemant (1889–1926) – Youngest daughter of Maharaja Duleep Singh and the last-born member of the royal line descending from Maharaja Ranjit Singh, founder of the Sikh Empire and former owner of the Koh-i-Noor diamond.
- Léo Ferré, poet and composer[5]
- Jean-Michel Folon, artist[3]
- Lewis Gilbert, screenwriter and director
- Sir Roger Moore, British actor[7]
- Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, twin sister of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the last Shah of Iran, and a member of the Pahlavi dynasty[8]
- Henryk Szeryng, violinist
There are two Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves at the cemetery. They are the graves of two British soldiers of the First World War; Private A. C. V. Dyer of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who died in May 1917 aged 22, and Captain Leo Lucas Ralli (of the Ralli baronets) of the Army Service Corps who died in April 1917 aged 33.[9]
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External links
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- Photo of the Holocaust Monument in the cemetery