Who rests at Père-Lachaise?
Jean-Paul ALBINET
The first artist to receive an official barcode — and to turn it into a work of art.
Voir la ficheKarel APPEL
Co-founder of CoBrA, he painted like an angry child — and said so proudly.
Voir la ficheThéodore BALLU
The architect who rebuilt the Hôtel de Ville after the fire of the Commune.
Voir la ficheFerdinand BARBEDIENNE
The founder who brought museum sculpture into middle-class drawing rooms.
Voir la ficheAlbert BARTHOLOMÉ
He is buried fifty metres from the monument he sculpted.
Voir la ficheAntoine-Louis BARYE
The Salon jury shut its doors on him thirteen years running.
Voir la fichePaul BAUDRY
The painter of the Opéra's grand foyer, buried at the City's expense by decree.
Voir la ficheJean-Adolphe BEAUCÉ
He followed the French armies across four continents, sketchbook in hand.
Voir la ficheOctave de BÉHAGUE
A bibliophile, he had his collection dispersed two years before his death.
Voir la ficheSilva-Gabriela BEJU
A Romanian sculptor who came to stone, to gold and to slate.
Voir la ficheHans BELLMER
He built a doll so as never again to do anything useful for the Reich.
Voir la ficheChristian BÉRARD
He dressed Cocteau's dreams; Poulenc wrote him a Stabat Mater.
Voir la ficheRosa BONHEUR
The first woman artist awarded the Légion d'honneur — she rests with her companion.
Voir la ficheAlexandre-Théodore BRONGNIART
He designed the whole cemetery, before being buried in it.
Voir la ficheJean de BRUNHOFF
Babar began as a story his wife told their children.
Voir la ficheGustave CAILLEBOTTE
He bequeathed Impressionism to France, which took only half of it.
Voir la ficheThe CARITA sisters
They dressed the hair of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn.
Voir la ficheJean CARRIÈS
He died at thirty-nine, leaving unfinished the monumental doorway of his life.
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