André Citroën - Paris, France - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

Located in Paris' Montparnasse Cemetery, André Citroën is buried with his family in a crypt surrounded by flowerpots and small four post chained together on three sides. The gravesite is rather plain compared to the many other artistic gravesites in Montparnasse.
Wikipedia (visit link) has this fairly brief entry about him:
"Born in Paris in 1878, André-Gustave was the 5th and last child of Jewish parents,[1][2][3] diamond merchant Levie Citroen from the Netherlands and Mazra Kleinmann (of Warsaw, Poland). He was a cousin of the British philosopher Sir A. J. Ayer.

The Citroen family moved to Paris from Amsterdam in 1873. Upon arrival, the diaeresis was added to the name, changing Citroen to Citroën (a grandfather had sold lemons, and had changed the consequent name Limoenman "lime man" to Citroen (Dutch for "lemon")). His father committed suicide when André was only six years old.


His grave in ParisAndré was a graduate of the École Polytechnique in 1900. During World War I, he was responsible for mass production of armaments. André founded the Citroën automobile company in 1919, leading it to become the fourth-largest automobile manufacturer in the world by the early 1930s.

He died in Paris, France, of stomach cancer in 1935 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, the funeral being led by the Chief Rabbi of Paris. In 1992, the Parc André Citroën public garden in Paris was named after him.

In 1998 he was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan."

Description: see above Date of birth: 02/05/1878 Date of death: 07/03/1935 Area of notoriety: Science/Technology Marker Type: Horizontal Marker Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: daily 10-6; winter 10-5. Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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