CIMETIÈRE DU MONTPARNASSE

Specialty Definition: Cimetière du Montparnasse

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The Cimetière du Montparnasse is a famous cemetery in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, France. It is in the 14ème 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 on the fringe of Les Halles food market on the grounds that it presented a health hazard. Several new cemeteries outside of the precincts of the capital replaced all the Parisian ones in the early 19th 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 writers 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.

Among the people buried here are:

Alexandre Alekhine, Russian-born chess world champion
Georges Auric, composer, member of Les Six
Frédéric Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
Jane Bathori, opera singer
Charles Baudelaire
William-Adolphe Bouguereau, painter
Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
Samuel Beckett, Irish writer
Simone de Beauvoir, feminist philosopher
Constantin Brancusi, sculptor
Brassaï, photographer
Jean Carmet, actor
André Citroën automobile manufacturer
Jules Dalou, sculptor
Robert Desnos, poet
Alfred Dreyfus, military officer
Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer
Henri Fantin-Latour, (painter)
Léon-Paul Fargue, poet and essayist
César Franck, composer
Charles Garnier, builder of the Paris Opera
Serge Gainsbourg, poet and singer
François Gérard, painter
Jean Antoine Houdon, sculptor
Joris-Karl Huysmans, writer
Eugène Ionesco, playwright
Pierre Larousse, French author of a well-known dictionary
Henri Laurens sculptor, engraver
Guy de Maupassant, writer
Jean Pierre Rampal, Flutist
Man Ray, photographer
François Rude, sculptor
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, literary critic, author
Camille Saint-Saens, composer
Georges Sand, writer
Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher
Jean Seberg, American actress
Tristan Tzara, poet and essayist
Ossip Zadkine, Russian-born sculptor
Porfirio Díaz, Longest serving Mexican President.

See also: List of other famous cemeteries

External links

Cimetière du Montparnasse
A collection of photos of the cemetery's many sculpted monuments
A list of many buried at the cemetery
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cimeti�re du Montparnasse."

Alternative Orthography: CIMETIÈRE DU MONTPARNASSE

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