Montparnasse Cemetery

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Address:	3 Boulevard Edgar-Quinet Paris, France, 75014
Hours:	Mon-Fri: 8am-5:30pm Sat: 8:30am - 5:30pm Sun: 9:00am - 5:30pm

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The final resting place of many Left Bank intellectuals and artists (among them: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett).

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Rambling About (In) Cemeteries: Montparnasse Cemetery
Posted by Andrea in Paris » Attractions on 28/Feb/2008

One grey New Year's Day in Paris my sister and I decided to go for a walk. Our senses happily dulled from the night before, we wandered through Montparnasse; a high wall herded us along the sidewalk.

Suddenly, it broke into large gates: a cemetery lay beyond. We hesitated, but our curiosity was piqued, so we went in...

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