The Montparnasse Cemetery is a distant second to Pere Lachaise, but it's only half a kilometer away, and it does have a share of historically interesting 19th and 20th century residents.
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| It's a big cemetery, but there are map/guides like this all around, and laminated copies to loan; plus, my big discovery of the day was that, at least for the most famous or popular persons, Google Maps does quite well, especially among the denser, smaller plots |
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| By far the most visited appeared to be the tomb of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir; I've read that 50,000 attended Sartre's memorial services; but most of the present-day attention goes to Beauvoir, whom one suspects will be the more historically significant of the pair; I'd wager more people have read The Second Sex than Being and Nothingness |
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| Baudelaire, author of The Flowers of Evil; nice flowers; major supporter of the likes of Poe, Wagner, Manet, to name a few |
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| Le Chat, sculpture in honor of an AIDS victim |
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| Henri Longlais, historian of French cinema |
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| The Bird, in honor of Jean-Jacques Goetzmann, by Niki de Saint- Phalle, who also did Le Chat |
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| Alfred Dreyfus, of the Dreyfus affair (look it up) |
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| Guy de Maupassant, father of the modern short story |
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| The Baudelaire Cenotaph |
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| Carlos Fuentes |
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| Ameican philosopher Susan Sontag |
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| Emile Durkeim, father of sociology |
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| Man Ray, American, photographer, painter, Dadaist, Surrealist, who spent most of his creative career in Montparnasse |
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| French sculptor Cesar Baldaccini, designed his own tomb |
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| Theater of the Absurd playwright Eugene Ionesco; never did find Poincare, Larousse, a few others... next time |
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