Extraterritorial Interments: Expatriate, émigré, and other poets who died in Paris and were laid to rest in the Île-de-France region (in and around Paris)

A Poet's Grave in Paris (On Heine, Poetry Foundation)

Cimetière de Montmartre

Heinrich Heine born 1798 in Düsseldorf / lived in Paris 1831 - 1856 / wrote in German / division 27

Juliusz Słowacki born 1809 in Kremenets / lived in Paris 1831, 1838 - 1849 / wrote in Polish / division 9 (remains moved to Poland in 1927, but grave still exists)

Cimetière de Thiais

Paul Celan born 1920 in Cernăuți / lived in Paris 1948 - 1970 / wrote poems in German / division 31, line 12, #39

Aurora Cornu born 1931 in Provița de Jos / lived in Paris 1965 - 2021 / wrote poems in Romanian and French / division 106, line H, #15

Miron Kiropol born 1936 in Bucharest / lived in Paris 1969 - 2020 / wrote poems in Romanian and French / division 106

Severo Sarduy born 1937 in Camagüey / lived in Paris 1960 - 1993 / wrote poems in Spanish / division 51, line 13, #2

Cimetière Montrouge

Jurgis Baltrušaitis born 1873 in Paantvardys / lived in Paris 1939 - 1944 / wrote poems in Lithuanian and Russian / northern side of cemetery next to large path

Cimetière Père Lachaise

Adah Isaacs Menken born 1835 near New Orleans / lived in Paris 1866 - 1868 / wrote poems in English / first buried in Père Lachaise, moved to Montparnasse in 1869, then moved back to the ossuary of Père Lachaise in 1992

Oscar Wilde born 1854 in Dublin / lived in Paris 1897 - 1900 / wrote poems in English and French / first buried in Bagneux, moved to Père Lachaise in 1909 / division 89

Jean Moréas born 1856 in Athens / lived in Paris 1875 - 1910 / wrote poems in French / division 89

Stuart Merrill born 1863 in Hempstead / lived in Paris 1866 - 1885, 1890 - 1915 / wrote poems mostly in French / division 93

Gertrude Stein born 1874 in Allegheny / lived in Paris 1877 - 1878, 1903 - 1946 / wrote poems in English / division 94

Guillaume Apollinaire born 1880 in Rome / lived in Paris 1900 - 1918 / wrote poems in French / division 86

Yvan Goll born 1891 in Sankt Didel / lived in Paris 1919 - 1939, 1947 - 1949 / wrote poems in German and French / division 11 (directly across from Chopin)

Nancy Cunard born 1896 in London / lived in Paris 1920 - 1965 / wrote poems in English / formerly interred in columbarium space 9016

Richard Wright born 1908 in Roxie / lived in Paris 1946 - 1960 / wrote poems in English / interred in columbarium space 848

James A. Emanuel born 1921 in Alliance / lived in Paris 1984 - 2013 / wrote poems in English / interred in columbarium space 16412

Yadollah Royai born 1932 in Damghan / lived (mostly) in Paris 1979 - 2022 / wrote poems in Persian / division 63, line 1, west of center on avenue de l’Ouest,

Aleksandr Ginzburg born 1936 in Moscow / lived in Paris 1980 - 2002 / wrote poems in Russian / division 89

Cimetière de Montparnasse

César Vallejo born 1892 in Santiago de Chuco / lived in Paris 1923 - 1930, 1932 - 1938 / wrote poems in Spanish / first buried in Montrouge, moved to Montparnasse in 1970 / division 12

Tristan Tzara born 1896 in Moinești / lived in Paris 1919 - 1963 / wrote poems in French and Romanian / division 8

Samuel Beckett born 1906 in Dublin / lived in Paris 1929 - 1933, 1937 - 1989 / wrote poems in French and English / division 12

Julio Cortázar born 1914 in Ixelles / lived in Paris 1951 - 1984 / wrote poems in Spanish / division 3

Cimetière de Pantin

Mário de Sá-Carneiro born 1890 in Lisbon / lived in Paris 1912 - 1914, 1915 - 1916 / wrote poems in Portuguese / division 93, line 21, #43, unmarked grave (perhaps moved to the ossuary of Père Lachaise)

Ilarie Voronca born 1903 in Brăila / lived in Paris 1933 - 1946 / wrote poems in French and Romanian / division 110, line 14, #6

Jindřich Heisler born 1914 in Chrast / lived in Paris 1947 - 1953 / wrote poems in Czech / division 154, line 13, #41, moved to the ossuary of Père Lachaise in 1984

Cimetière de Passy

Natalie Clifford Barney born 1876 in Dayton / lived in Paris 1901 - 1972 / wrote poems in French / division 9

Renée Vivien born 1877 in London / lived in Paris 1899 - 1909 / wrote poems in French / division 13

Pantheon

Missak Manouchian born 1909 (or 1906) in Adıyaman / lived in Paris 1925 - 1944 / wrote poems in Armenian / originally buried in d'Ivry, moved to the Pantheon in 2024

Cimetière des Champeaux de Montmorency

Cyprian Norwid born 1821 in Laskowo-Głuchy / lived in Paris 1849 - 1852, 1854 - 1883 / wrote poems in Polish / originally buried in d'Ivry, moved to division C of Montmorency in 1888

Others

Filinto Elísio (also known as Francisco Manuel do Nascimento) born 1734 in Lisbon / lived in Paris 1778 - 1819 / wrote poems in Portuguese / buried in Père Lachaise / division 43, (north side) chemin des Anglais, line 1 (cenotaph?)

Giovanni Battista Casti (also known as Giambattista Casti) born 1724 in Acquapendente / lived in Paris 1796 - 1803 / wrote poems in Italian / buried in Père Lachaise, according to Herman van den Bergh’s Giambattista Casti (1724-1803). l'Homme et l'oeuvre

Boris Poplavski born 1903 in Moscow / lived in Paris 1921 - 1935 / wrote poems in Russian / buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

Ivan Bounine born 1870 in Veronej / lived in Paris 1920 - 1953 / wrote poems in Russian / buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

Zinaida Gippius born 1869 in Belyov / lived in Paris 1906 - 1908, 1920 - 1928, 1933 - 1945 / wrote poems in Russian / buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

Dmitry Merezhkovsky born 1865 in Saint Petersburg / lived in Paris 1906 - 1908, 1920 - 1928, 1933 - 1941 / wrote poems in Russian / buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

Nikolaï Otsoup born 1894 in Pouchkine / lived in Paris 1913, 1923 - 1958 / wrote poems in Russian / buried in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois