Cemetery Montparnasse

Montparnasse cemetery
France, Paris
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Cemetery Montparnasse

Montparnasse cemetery
France, Paris
One of the most famous Parisian cemeteries, located in the southern part of the French capital. The necropolis got its name from the Montparnasse area. Not far from the cemetery are the railway station and metro station of the same name. The Montparnasse Cemetery was founded in 1824, when local authorities bought this land from the church in order to organize a citywide cemetery. Previously, a monastery of the Order of the Hospitallers stood on this site, near the walls of which the monks buried their brothers. In the 19th century, Montparnasse began to be populated by talented but poor representatives of French culture and science, many of whom later became world famous. Thus, the Montparnasse cemetery became an honorary place of burial. At the entrance, tourists are handed a kind of guidebook, which lists the crypts and graves of famous people.

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Traveled 5 years ago
Rating 8
An old cemetery in Paris, the second in terms of the number of celebrities and stars of music and ballet, literature and art after Pere Lachaise, but people are still buried there. It is divided by a street into two parts. Here are buried Jacques Chirac, writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Alexandre Dumas son, Stendhal, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Baudelaire, composers Jacques Offenbach and Hector Berlioz, artists Edgar Degas and Pissarro, Francois Truffaut, actors Serge Ginsbourg and Philippe Noiret, architect Grand -Opera Garnier, dancer Vatslav Nezhinsky.
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