Cimetière de Montparnasse

Montparnasse Cemetery

The burial place of existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, feminist Simone de Beauvoir (both of whom lived nearby); musician Serge Gainsbourg; artist Man Ray; the poets Charles Baudelaire, Guy de Maupassant, Charles Sainte-Beuve, and Marguerite Duras; the founders of the Theatre of the Absurd Samuel Becket and Eugene Ionesco; the sculptors Constantin Brancusi and Ossip Zadkine; the composers Camille de Saint-Saens and César Franck; the actors Maria Montez and Jean Seberg; the French officer Alfred Dreyfus; the founder of the Larousse encyclopedia, Pierre Larousse; the industrialist André Citroen, and many others.

Address

3, boul Edgar-Quinet

Getting there

Métro: Edgar-Quinet, Raspail

Hours

16 Mar-5 Nov: Mon-Fri 08:00-18:00, Sat 08:30-18:00, Sun 09:00-18:00; 6 Nov-15 Mar: Mon-Fri 08:00-17:30, Sat 08:30-17:30, Sun 09:30-17:30