Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery

The Neuilly-sur-Seine Old Communal Cemetery in the Hauts-de-Seine département of France is in the western suburbs of Paris, between Paris and La Défense.

The first is called cimetière ancien (Old Cemetery) and is to be found in Neuilly; the second (New Cemetery) is to be found in Nanterre, near La Défense and adjacent to Paris La Défense Arena, but belongs to Neuilly. It is called cimetière nouveau.

Old Cemetery

Alessandro Anzani (1877–1956), inventor
Liliane Bettencourt (1922–2017), principal shareholder L'Oréal
Henri Betti (1917–2005), composer and pianist
Louis de Broglie (1892–1987), Nobel Prize Laureate in science
René Clair (1898–1981), film director
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (1893–1945), writer
Anatole France (1844–1924), novelist
Pierre Fresnay (1897–1975), actor
Alexander Glazunov (1865–1936), composer
André Maurois (1885–1967), writer
Antonia "La Argentina" Mercé (1890–1936), dancer
Paul Meurisse (1912–1979), actor
Pierre Mondy (1925–2012), actor
Yvonne Printemps (1894–1977), actress and singer
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824–1898), painter
Jane Rhodes (1929–2011), operatic soprano
Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922-2018) author, filmmaker, member of the Académie Française
Countess Iréne Sampieri (1872–1963), socialite^[1]^[2]
Michel Serrault (1928–2007), actor

The cemetery contains one Commonwealth war grave, of a British Red Cross Society officer of World War I.^[3]

New Cemetery

Grégoire Aslan (1908–1982), actor
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), painter

The cemetery contains 33 Commonwealth war graves, of 32 service personnel from World War I and one from World War II,^[4] as well as an American Legion memorial bearing the names of 250 Americans.