Access: Arthur Ranc's grave is on the Avenue Circulaire, just before the junction with the Chemin de la Guérite. Going down the avenue, the grave is on the right in the third row behind the Héron family grave (Div. 36).

Born in 1831. Opposed to Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's coup d'état in 1851, deported, amnestied, he contributed to various republican newspapers. After the proclamation of the Republic in 1870, he became mayor of the 9th arrondissement, then a member of parliament in February 1871. He resigned from the Assembly and was elected by the 9th arrondissement to the Commune, from which he also resigned. Condemned to death, exiled, re-elected as a deputy on his return, co-founder of the "Society of Human and Citizen Rights" (Société des droits de l'homme et du citoyen), he pursued a political career as a senator and died in Paris in 1908.

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