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Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo [1] (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ⓘ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms.
Among those buried in its necropolis are Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Jean Moulin, Louis Braille, Jean Jaurès and Soufflot, its architect. In 1907 Marcellin Berthelot was buried with his wife Mme Sophie Berthelot. Marie Curie was interred in 1995, the first woman interred on merit.
1862: Les Misérables by Victor Hugo – Jean Valjean is buried in Père Lachaise; 1869: Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert – description of cemetery; 2004: "The Enemy" by Lee Child – Jack and Joe Reacher's mother gets buried there after passing from cancer due being part of the French Resistance during WWII. She went by the name ...
The Cemetery of Montmartre (French: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a cemetery in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France, that dates to the early 19th century.Officially known as the Cimetière du Nord, it is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after the Père Lachaise Cemetery and the Montparnasse Cemetery.
In 1993, it was reported that Hugo was working on an autobiography, though the project never came to fruition. [27] In his 1997 book The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night, Anthony Haden-Guest wrote how the artist Scott Covert encountered a homeless Hugo in December 1993 sleeping in a park after running out of money to stay at the Hotel Chelsea. [10]
This category lists people who were buried at the Panthéon in Paris. Pages in category "Burials at the Panthéon, Paris" The following 61 pages are in this category, out of 61 total.
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 [4] Joseph Florimond Loubat (1831–1927), bibliophile, antiquarian, sportsman, and ...
Buried in Hims, Syria: Khaled Bin Al-Walid Mosque: Abu Ayyub al-Ansari: Companion of Muhammad. Buried in Istanbul, Turkey: Eyüp Sultan Mosque ‘Alī Zaynul ‘Ābidīn: Son of Husayn ibn ‘Alī and the Fourth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām: Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked ...