Montparnasse cemetery, a wonderfull city of the dead with ranks of bizarre miniature temples and plenty of illustrious names, from Baudelaire to Beckett, Gainsbourg to Saint-Saens. The joint grave of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir lies immediately right of the entrance on Boulevard Edgar-Quinet. You'll find the tombs of the scupltor Zadkine; and the Fascist Pierre Laval, a member of Petain's government, who, after the war was executed for treason. As an antidote, you can pay homage to Proudhon, the anarchist who coined the phrase "Property is theft!". Right in the northern corner is a tomb with a sculpture by Brancusi - The Kiss - . And for seekers of the bizarre, by the wall along avenue du Boulevard you can see the inventor of a safe gas lamp, Charles Pigeon, in bed next to his sleeping wife, reading a book by the light of his invention.

Cesar Baldaccini

Sculptor

Dreyfus Family

The Dreyfus affair

Brancusi Romanian Sculptor

The Kiss