Opened in 1824, Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris’ second largest after Père
Lachaise, sprawls over 19 hectares shaded by 1200 trees, including
maples, ash, lime trees and conifers. Among its illustrious ‘residents’
are poet Charles Baudelaire, writer Guy de Maupassant, playwright Samuel
Beckett, sculptor Constantin Brancusi, painter Chaim Soutine,
photographer Man Ray, industrialist André Citroën, Captain Alfred
Dreyfus of the infamous affair, actress Jean Seberg, and
philosopher-writer couple Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, as
well as singer Serge Gainsbourg. Free maps are available from the
conservation office.
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