The
Cimetière du Grand Jas (Grand Jas Cemetery) is located at 205 avenue de Grasse in
CannesCannes France, is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. The population was 70,400 as of the 2007 census. Cannes is the home of numerous luxurious houses and mansions as well as many high-end gated communities...
on the
French RivieraThe Côte d'Azur, often known in English as the French Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the south eastern corner of France, extending from Menton near the Italian border in the east to either Hyères or Cassis in the west....
. The nine hectare terraced cemetery began operations in 1866 and is known for its landscaped architecture with rich floral decorations and statuary.
Its "English square" or
Cimetière Anglais, is the final resting place for a number of
English peopleEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
who made Cannes their home. It is dominated by the statue of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux who played a major role in building the city.
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The
Cimetière du Grand Jas (Grand Jas Cemetery) is located at 205 avenue de Grasse in
CannesCannes France, is one of the best-known cities of the French Riviera, a busy tourist destination and host of the annual Cannes Film Festival. The population was 70,400 as of the 2007 census. Cannes is the home of numerous luxurious houses and mansions as well as many high-end gated communities...
on the
French RivieraThe Côte d'Azur, often known in English as the French Riviera, is the Mediterranean coastline of the south eastern corner of France, extending from Menton near the Italian border in the east to either Hyères or Cassis in the west....
. The nine hectare terraced cemetery began operations in 1866 and is known for its landscaped architecture with rich floral decorations and statuary.
Its "English square" or
Cimetière Anglais, is the final resting place for a number of
English peopleEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
who made Cannes their home. It is dominated by the statue of Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux who played a major role in building the city. Some of the prominent persons buried in the Grand Jas Cemetery are:
- Henry Peter Brougham (1778-1868), British lawyer, statesman, builder of Cannes
- Eugène Brieux
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(1858-1932), dramatist
- Jorge Cuevas Bartholin, Marquis de Cuevas (1885-1961), American ballet school founder, husband of Margaret Rockefeller Strong de Larraín, Marquesa de Cuevas
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- Martine Carol
-Biography:Born Marie-Louise Jeanne Nicolle Mourer in Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, , she studied acting under René Simon , making her stage debut in 1940 and her first motion picture in 1943. One of the most beautiful women in film, she was frequently cast as an elegant blonde seductress...
(1922-1967), actress
- Jean Gabriel Domergue (1889-1962), painter, poster artist
- Ernest Duchesne
Ernest Duchesne was a French physician who noted that certain moulds kill bacteria. He made this discovery thirty-two years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those moulds, but his research went unnoticed.He entered l'Ecole du...
(1874-1912), medical scientist
- Peter Carl Fabergé
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(1846-1920), Russian jewellery designer
- Georges Guétary
Georges Guétary, born Lambros Worloou was a French singer, dancer, cabaret performer and film actor, best known his role in the 1951 musical An American in Paris.-Early life and career:...
(1915-1997), singer, actor
- Olga Khoklova (1891-1955), Russian ballerina (Picasso's first wife)
- Apo Lazarides
Apo Lazarides , was a French champion cyclist.Born Jean Apotre Lazarides in Marles-les-Mines, Pas-de-Calais of Greek ancestry, he cycled in the mountainsas a boy...
(1925-1998), champion cyclist
- Klaus Mann
Klaus Mann was a German writer.- Life and work :Born in Munich, Klaus Mann was the son of German writer Thomas Mann and his wife, Katia Pringsheim. His father was baptized as a Lutheran, while his mother was from a family of secular Jews. He began writing short stories in 1924 and the following...
(1906-1949), writer
- Prosper Mérimée
Prosper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.-Life:...
(1803-1870), writer
- Jacques Monod
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(1910-1976), biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- Marquis de Morès
Marquis de Morès was a frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and an anti-Semitic politician in his native France.-Early life:...
(1858-1896), adventurer
- Lily Pons
Lily Pons was a French-American coloratura soprano.-Biography:Born as Alice "Lili" Joséphine Pons in Draguignan near Cannes, Pons first studied piano at the Paris Conservatory, winning the First Prize at the age of 15...
(1904-1976), opera singer
- Emmanuel Signoret (1872-1900), poet
- John Stairs (1823-1888), Canadian business executive
- Marcel Thil
Marcel Thil was a French boxer and world champion.Born in Saint-Dizier, Haute-Marne in the Champagne-Ardenne Region of France, Marcel Thil started boxing at a very young age and turned professional at the age of sixteen...
(1904-1968), world boxing champion
- Laurent Vianay (1843-1928), architect
- William Bonaparte Wyse (1862-1892), Irish poet, entomologist
See also
- List of famous cemeteries