Rouen Monumental Cemetery

The Rouen Monumental Cemetery (French: Cimetière monumental de Rouen) is the most important cemetery of the Norman city of Rouen, opened in 1828 and situated to the North-East of the town-centre. The entrance gate, the chapel and the monumental cross are the work of Charles Felix Maillet du Boullay.[1]

Buried people

Charles Verdrel's grave

Cremated people

Bibliography

  • J. Rivage, Le Cimetière monumental, Cagniard, Rouen, 1864
  • Jean-Pierre Chaline, « L'Art funéraire expression d'une société ? L'exemple du Cimetière monumental de Rouen », dans Recueil d'études offert en hommage au Doyen M. de Boüard, Annales de Normandie, numéro spécial, Caen, 1982
  • Jean-Pierre Chaline, « Mort d'un cimetière ? », in Bulletin des Amis des monuments rouennais, 1993
  • Jean-Pierre Chaline (dir.), Mémoire d'une ville, le Cimetière monumental de Rouen, Société des Amis des monuments rouennais, Rouen, 1997 (ISBN 2-9509804-1-4) LCCN 2002-385002
  • Ghilaine Lhermitte (1997). "Le cimetière monumental et l'avenue Georges Métayer". Le Quartier Jouvenet;2 siècles d'histoire (in French). Rouen: Roussel. pp. 28–31. ISBN 2-911408-03-9. OCLC 492045554.
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