Cimetière parisien de Pantin

The Cimetière parisien de Pantin (sometimes known as cimetière parisien de Pantin-Bobigny) is one of the three Parisien cemeteries extra muros, located in the commune of Pantin which is in Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-de-France.

History
The cemetery was opened on November 15, 1886. Pantin is one of the three Parisien Cemeteries extra muros, the others being Cimetière parisien de Thiais (opened in 1929) and Cimetière parisien de Bagneux (also opened in 1886).

Since its opening, one million people have been buried in the cemetery, with nearly 5,000 interments taking place annually.

War graves
The cemetery contains a small British Commonwealth war graves plot, in Division 6, holding 93 servicemen of World War I, some casualties who died in military hospitals after evacuation from the Western Front, the later ones those stationed in the area after the Armistice. The plot is amidst French military war graves.

Individual burials
Because even the cemetery does not seem to have an exhaustive list of burials and the amount of burials is vast, only a selection:
 * Frédéric Othon Théodore Aristidès (1931–2013), artist
 * Jeanne Aubert (1906–1988), actress
 * Jacques Audiberti (1899–1965), writer
 * Doris Bensimon (1924–2009), Austrian-born French sociologist and academic
 * Émile Bernard (1868–1941), painter
 * Boris Bouieff (1925–1979), writer (anonymous, plain, earthen grave in division 54)
 * Thomas Breakwell (1872–1901), Bahá'í convert
 * Eugène Criqui (1893–1977), boxer
 * Damia (1892–1978), singer
 * René Daumal (1908–1944), writer
 * Gabrielle Fontan (1873–1959), actress
 * Fratellini family members, circus family
 * Fréhel (1891–1951), singer
 * Wiera Gran (1916–2007), singer
 * Constantin Guys (1802–1892) Dutch-born painter
 * Alphonse Halimi (1932–2006), boxer
 * André Hardellet (1911–1974), poet and writer
 * Helno (1963–1993), singer with Les Négresses Vertes
 * Véra Korène (1901–1996), Russian-born actress
 * Ludwik de Laveaux (painter) (1868–1894), Polish painter
 * Ginette Leclerc (1912–1991), actress
 * Emmanuel Lévinas (1906–1995), philosopher
 * Jean-Pierre Melville (1917–1973), film director/producer, Resistance fighter
 * Reinette L'Oranaise (1918–1998), singer
 * San Yu (1901–1966), Chinese-French painter
 * Savielly Tartakower (1887–1956), Polish-French chess Grandmaster, chess journalist and author
 * Jules Védrines (1881–1919), aviator
 * Louis Vivin (1861–1936) primitivist painter
 * Ilarie Voronca (1903–1946), poet
 * Louise Weber (1866–1929), Cancan dancer, later reinterred at Montmartre Cemetery
 * Jean d'Yd (1880–1964), actor

Notable ornaments

 * The grave of private Germain Verlé, with a sculpture by Georges Meynial (division 15)
 * The massive tomb in division 9, dedicated to mes maîtres Déon et Dea

Monuments
Spread around the cemetery there are memorials for certain events such as for the victims of the Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux crash of 1956 (in division 126).

Location
The main entrance to the Cimetière parisien de Pantin is on 164 Avenue Jean Jaurès (it is actually on Avenue du Cimetière Parisien), in Pantin (one of the banlieu of Paris). There is also a gate named Porte de Petits Points on Avenue du Général Leclerc (near the junction with Chemin des Vignes). There are two other gates, Porte de Pailleux and Porte d'Illustration, but these are only open on Rosh Hashanah and All Saints' Day. The cemetery is located next to Fort d'Aubervilliers.

Public transport
The cemetery is a short walk from the Aubervilliers – Pantin – Quatre Chemins or Fort d'Aubervilliers métro stations, which can be reached by taking line 7. The nearest railway station is Pantin which is served by line E.

The cemetery is also served by bus lines 151 and 152.

There is a Vélib' station at Avenue Jean Jaurès (35001).