Where is the Montparnasse Cemetery in France?

Cimetière du Montparnasse is one of the three major cemeteries in Paris, alongside Cimetière du Père-Lachaise and Cimetière de Montmartre. Located in the Montparnasse district south of Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, it belongs to the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Address: 3 Boulevard Edgar Quinet, opening hours: Monday to Friday 8:00~17:45, Saturday 8:30~17:45, Sunday and national holidays 9:00~17:45. Transportation: Take Metro Line 6 and get off at Edgar Quinet Station, or take Metro Lines 4 and 6 and get off at Raspail Station, or take Metro Line 13 and get off at Gaite Station. It takes about 3 minutes to walk.

The original cemetery in Montparnasse was Le Cimetière du Sud. After it was closed for sanitary reasons in 1786, the cemetery was rebuilt on three expropriated farms in 1824.

The Montparnasse Cemetery is the burial place of many French literary and artistic intellectual elites. The famous realist writer Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), mathematician Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), automobile engineer Citroen (André Citro?n, 1878–1935), existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) and his wife Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986), Durr, one of the founders of sociology Mile Durkheim (1858-1917), New Wave director and writer Marguerite Donnadieu (known as Marguerite Duras, 1914-1996), Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), author of "Waiting for Godot" , Frederic Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1904), the creator of the Statue of Liberty in New York, and others are buried here. The famous Chinese female painter and sculptor Pan Yulin (1895-1977) is also buried here. It is also a place to commemorate the Paris policemen and firefighters who died in the line of duty.

The celebrities who are buried here attract a large number of tourists to the cemetery. Today, the Montparnasse Cemetery has become a famous tourist attraction in Paris. Destination. Although the cemetery is not big, it is still recommended that you ask the guard for a map at the entrance. It will help you understand it and save a lot of time.