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4 Cimetière du Montparnasse

The Montparnasse Cemetery was planned by . Charles
Napoleon outside the city walls to replace the Baudelaire
numerous, congested small cemeteries within Cenotaph
the old city, viewed as a health hazard at the This is a monument
turn of the 19th century. It was opened in to the great poet
and critic (1821–67),
1824 and became the resting place of many author of The Flowers
illustrious Parisians, particularly Left Bank of Evil.
personalities. Like all French cemeteries, it is
divided into rigidly aligned paths forming
blocks or divisions. The Rue Emile Richard
cuts it into two parts, the Grand Cimetière
and the Petit Cimetière.
AVE DU MIDI

. Charles Pigeon Family Tomb AVE THIERRY AVE DE L’ EST
This wonderfully pompous Belle Epoque tomb
depicts the French industrialist and inventor in RUE EMILE RICHARD
bed with his wife.

KEY
1 Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve 8 The Tower is all that remains of a
was a critic of the French Romantic 17th-century windmill. It was part of
generation, and is generally the old property of the Brothers of
described as the “father of Charity on which the cemetery
modern criticism”. was built.
2 André Citroën, an engineer and 9 Tristen Tzara, the Romanian
industrialist who died in 1935, writer, was leader of the literary and
founded the famous French car firm. artistic Dada movement in Paris in
3 Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was the 1920s.
the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty 0 Man Ray was an American
(1886) in New York. photographer who immortalized the
4 Alfred Dreyfus was a Jewish Montparnasse artistic and café scene
army officer whose unjust trial for in the 1920s and 1930s.
treason in 1894 provoked a political q Charles Baudelaire, the
and social scandal. 19th-century poet, is buried here in
5 The Pétain family tomb his detested stepfather’s family tomb,
contains the wife of the marshal who along with his beloved mother.
collaborated with the Germans w Chaïm Soutine, a poor Jewish
during World War II. Pétain himself Lithuanian, was a Montparnasse
is buried on Ile d’Yeu, where he Bohemian painter of the 1920s.
was imprisoned. He was a friend of the Italian The Kiss by Brancusi
6 Guy de Maupassant was a artist Modigliani. This is the famous
Primitivo-Cubist
19th-century novelist. e Camille Saint-Saëns, the pianist, sculpture (a response
7 Samuel Beckett, the great Irish organist and composer who died in to Rodin’s Kiss) by the
playwright renowned for Waiting for 1921, was one of France’s great post- great Romanian artist,
Godot, spent most of his life in Paris. Romantic musicians. who died in 1957 and
He died in 1989. is buried just off the
Rue Emile Richard.

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Date 26th July 2012
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