Buried here too, is the pet lion of stage actress, feminist, and co-founder of the cemetery, Marguerite Durand and the pet of Camille Saint-Saëns, composer of Carnival of the Animals.
Marguerite Duras | Marguerite Zorach | Durand | Richard Durand | Mortimer Durand | Marguerite Yourcenar | Marguerite Long | Marguerite Bourgeoys | Marguerite Wildenhain | Marguerite Viby | Marguerite Durand | Marguerite Clark | David Durand | Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois | Peter Durand | Marguerite Young | Marguerite Van Cook | Marguerite Steinheil | Marguerite Porter | Marguerite Monnot | Marguerite McBey | Marguerite Higgins | Marguerite Henry | Marguerite de Angeli | marguerite | Joël-François Durand | Durand, Michigan | William F. Durand | Sainte-Marguerite | Raymond Durand (footballer) |
Batignolles is now the home for the earthly remains of André Barsacq, Alexandre Benois, André Breton, Alfred Bruneau, Lucienne Bréval, Gaston Calmette, Blaise Cendrars, Léon Dierx, Pierre Dreyfus, Marguerite Durand, Hélène Dutrieu, Joséphin Péladan, Benjamin Péret, Ray Ventura, Paul Vidal, Édouard Vuillard and André Zirnheld (in the family grave), among others.
That same year, activist Maria Martin (1839-1910) launched Le Journal des femmes and on December 9, 1897, high-profile actress and journalist Marguerite Durand (1864-1936) continued the cause and opened another feminist newspaper called La Fronde.