The Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris is the resting place of the intellectual and artistic elite of France. Publishers and people who promoted artists' works are also buried here. The cemetery also has gravestones for firefighters and policemen who died while on duty in the streets of Paris.
The Montparnasse Cemetery was established in 1824 as the Southern Cemetery on three farms in the then suburbs of the French capital. The construction of cemeteries was banned in Paris at the end of the 18th century, which is why this and other cemeteries were built outside the city at that time.
Among the most important personalities and historic tombstones are: the grave of Charles Baudelaire ', the statue of Julio Cortázar, the grave of François Pouqueville, the grave of Edgar Quinet, the graves of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, the grave of Sainte-Beuve with the bust of the writer, the tomb of the Walloon family, the tomb of Ricardo Menon and the tombstone of Zacharie Astruca.
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