Montparnasse Cemetery

a cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city's 14th arrondissement

Created from three farms in 1824, the cemetery at Montparnasse was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud (Southern Cemetery). Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the closure, owing to health concerns, of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786. Several new cemeteries outside the precincts of the capital replaced all the internal Parisian ones in the early 19th century: Montmartre Cemetery in the north, Père Lachaise Cemetery in the east, and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south. At the heart of the city, and today sitting in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, is Passy Cemetery.

Notable interments

・Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), poet
・Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), feminist philosopher & author
・Charles Marie René Leconte de Lisle (1818–1894), poet
・Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980), French philosopher & novelist
・Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), singer and composer
・Guy de Maupassant (1850–1893), author
・Clara Haskil (1895–1960), Romanian pianist
・Jacques Demy (1931–1990), film director
・Marguerite Duras (1914–1996), author & movie director

General Information

Access:M⑥Edgar-Quinet ④⑥Raspail
Address:3 Bd.Edgard Quinet 75014
Tell:01 44 10 86 50
Opening Hours:8:00～18:00

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