Access: return to Avenue Aguado and follow it up to Avenue Traversière n. 2, where you turn left. After about twenty metres, on your left, you will see Raoul Urbain's tomb in the fourth row, recognisable by its bronze effigy. (Div. 91)

Born in 1837, a schoolteacher in Normandy and then Paris, he joined the National Guard during the siege of the city by the Prussians, and was a member of its Central Committee Committee. Very active from 18 March onwards, he was elected to the Commune in the 7th arrondissement, and was delegated to the education department. Arrested and sentenced to forced labour after the Bloody WeekHe returned after the amnesty and became involved in the cooperative movement. He died in Paris in 1902.

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