Montparnasse Cemetery - D

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• Jules Dalou (1838–1902), sculptor
• Gabriel Davioud (1824–1881), architect
• Pierre David-Weill (1900–1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
• Suzanne Dechevaux-Dumesnil (1900–1989), lover and, later, wife of Samuel Beckett
• Jacques Demy (1931–1990), film director
• Édouard Deperthes (1833–1898), architect
• Paul Deschanel (1855–1922), former President of France
• Robert Desnos (1900–1945), Surrealist poet
• Porfirio Díaz (1830–1915), longest serving Mexican President, Dictator, General
• Marie Dorval (1798–1849), actress
• Alfred Dreyfus (1859–1935), Jewish military officer falsely accused of treason (the Dreyfus affair)
• Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790–1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
• Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), author & movie director
• Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), sociologist