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Cimetière du Montparnasse aka: Montparnasse Cemetery

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100% of people who have been to Cimetière du Montparnasse think it's worth visiting. The most popular place in Cimetière du Montparnasse is Jean-Paul Sartre's Grave.


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Untitled by marianoff

I am a big fan of argentinian writer julio Cortazar,and wen we went to Paris we visited his grave.On his grave,a hopscotch(rayuela)drawing and a few gauloises that somebady have left ,remembering his masterpiece…was breathtaking…so i cried ,but following his instruccions:


Instrucciones para llorar. Dejando de lado los motivos, atengámonos a la manera correcta de llorar, entendiendo por esto un llanto que no ingrese en el escándalo, ni que insulte a la sonrisa con su paralela y torpe semejanza. El llanto medio u ordinario consiste en una contracción general del rostro y un sonido espasmódico acompañado de lágrimas y mocos, estos últimos al final, pues el llanto se acaba en el momento en que uno se suena enérgicamente. Para llorar, dirija la imaginación hacia usted mismo, y si esto le resulta imposible por haber contraído el hábito de creer en el mundo exterior, piense en un pato cubierto de hormigas o en esos golfos del estrecho de Magallanes en los que no entra nadie, nunca. Llegado el llanto, se tapará con decoro el rostro usando ambas manos con la palma hacia adentro. Los niños llorarán con la manga del saco contra la cara, y de preferencia en un rincón del cuarto. Duración media del llanto, tres minutos. (“Instrucciones para llorar”,Historias de Cronopios y Famas). over 5 years ago

A Favorite by sarahlovesmusic

I love this cemetary, and visited there multiple times. It’s not so picturesque as Pere Lachaise, but it is very beautiful and very interesting. Its smaller size makes it (slightly) more managable/less overwhelming than Lachaise, as well. A good number of well-known people are buried here (I personally visited the graves of Sartre, Man Ray, and Brassi, but there are a good many more), but it is worht it simply for the graves and tombs and mini-chapels crowded into the place.

over 7 years ago

Part of my Jean Seberg World Tour: by Kristen

Marshalltown, Iowa, various locations in France, and then ending here, at her gravesite.

over 7 years ago

Among others, the following graves are located here: by Kristen

  • Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
  • Charles Baudelaire, poet
  • Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
  • André Citroën automobile manufacturer
  • Marguerite Duras, writer
  • Henri Fantin-Latour, painter
  • César Franck, composer
  • Charles Garnier, builder of the Paris Opera
  • Serge Gainsbourg, poet and singer
  • Eugène Ionesco, playwright
  • Pierre Larousse, author of a well-known dictionary
  • Guy de Maupassant, writer
  • Mireille, singer, composer
  • Man Ray, photographer
  • Georges Sand, writer
  • Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher
  • Jean Seberg, American actress
over 7 years ago

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