Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetiere Montparnasse)

3 bd. Edgar-Quinet. (Open Map)
(75)

Description

Opened in 1824, Paris' Cimetière du Montparnasse is second only to Père Lachaise in size, being 19 hectares. Its illustrious residents include writer Guy de Maupassant, playwright Samuel Beckett, sculptor Constantin Brancusi, photographer Man Ray, industrialist André Citroën, the infamous Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the Dreyfus Affair, legendary singer Serge Gainsbourg, philosopher-writers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.