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The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14 th arrondissement. Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetière du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786 due to health concerns. Several new cemeteries outside of the precincts of the capital replaced all the internal Parisian ones in the early 19th cent ...

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Cimetière du Montparnasse: Encyclopedia - Cimetière du Montparnasse

Cimetière du Montparnasse

The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14 ^th arrondissement.

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

Montparnasse Cemetery is the eternal home of many of France's intellectual and artistic elite as well as publishers and others who promoted the works of authors and artists. There are also monuments to police and firefighters killed in the line of duty in the city of Paris.

Because of the many notable people buried there, it is a highly popular tourist attraction.

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Among the people buried here are:

Alexandre Alekhine (1892-1946), Russian-born chess world champion
Jean-Michel Atlan (1913-1960), poet and painter
Georges Auric (1899-1983), composer, member of Les Six
Frédéric Bartholdi (1834-1904), sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
Maryse Bastié (1898-1952), pioneer aviatrix
Jane Bathori (1877-1970), opera singer
Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), famous poet
Louis Gustave Binger (1856-1936), explorer
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), artist (painter in realist style)
Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1921), sculptor & teacher
Jacques Becker (1906-1960), filmmaker
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish author, playwright & poet
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986), feminist philosopher & author
Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), Romanian-born sculptor
Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) (1899-1984), photographer
Roger Caillois (1913-1978), author
Jean Carmet (1920-1994), actor
André Citroën (1878-1935), founded France's Citroën automobile factory
Gaspard Coriolis (1792-1843), mathematician
Julio Cortázar (1914-1984), Argentinian author
Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801-1877), economist
Jules Dalou (1838-1902), sculptor
Pierre David-Weill (1900-1975), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
Jacques Demy (1931-1990), film director
Robert Desnos (1900-1945), Surrealist poet
Porfirio Díaz (1830-1915), longest serving Mexican President
Alfred Dreyfus (1859-1935), military officer convicted of treason (the Dreyfus affair)
Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus de Milo
Marguerite Duras (1914-1996), author & movie director
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904), artist
Léon-Paul Fargue (1876-1947), poet and essayist
Ernest Flammarion (1846-1936), publisher
César Franck (1822-1890), composer & organist
Othon Friesz (1879-1949), painter
Charles Garnier (1825-1898), designed the Paris Opera House (now known as Opera Garnier)
Serge Gainsbourg (1928-1991), poet and singer
François Gérard (1770-1837), artist
Clara Haskil (1895-1960), pianist
Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828), famous sculptor of notable men
Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848-1907), author
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994), Romanian playwright
Joëlle (1953-1982), American-born French singer
Henri Langlois (1914-1977), film preservationist
Pierre Larousse (1817-1875), French author of a well-known encyclopedia of gastronomy, Larousse Gastronomique
Henri Laurens (1885-1954), sculptor, engraver
Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922), physician, parasitologist
Philippe Léotard (1940-2001), teacher, actor, poet, singer
Sylvia Lopez (1931-1959), actress
Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), author
Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868), actress, poet
André Meyer (1898-1979), French/American financier
Mireille (1906-1996), singer, composer
Simon Petlyura (1879-1926), Ukrainian leader
Maria Montez (1912-1951), actress
Maurice Pialat (1925-2003), film director
Jules Henri Poincare, (1854–1912), mathematician and physicist
Jean Poiret (1926-1992), actor, film director
Jean Pierre Rampal (1922-2000), flautist
Man Ray (1890-1976), American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer
Serge Reggiani (1922-2004), singer, actor
François Rude (1784-1855), sculptor
Jean Sablon (1906-1994), singer
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869), literary critic, author
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French philosopher & novelist
Claude Sautet (1924-2000), film director
Jean Seberg (1938-1979), American actress & civil rights activist
Delphine Seyrig (1932-1990), actress
Susan Sontag (1933-2004), author (wrote famous essay "Notes on Camp")
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963), Romanian Dadaist poet and essayist
César Vallejo (1892-1938), Peruvian poet
Adolphe Willette (1857-1926), painter
Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), Russian-born sculptor & artist

See also: List of other famous cemeteries

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