Created from three farms in 1824 , the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as ''Le Cimetière du Sud''. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the '' Cimetière Des Innocents '' in 1786 due to health concerns. Several new cemeteries outside of the precincts of the capital replaced all the internal Parisian ones in the early 19th , '' Cimetière De Montmartre '' in the north, ''Le Cimetière Père-Lachaise '' in the east and ''Cimetière du Montparnasse'' in the south. At the heart of the city, and today, sitting in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower , is '' Cimetière De Passy ''.
Montparnasse Cemetery is the eternal home of many of France's intellectual and artistic elite as well as publishers and others who promoted the works of authors and artists. There are also monuments to Police and Firefighters killed in the line of duty in the city of Paris.
Because of the many notable people buried there, it is a highly popular tourist attraction.
Among the people buried here are:
- Alexandre Alekhine ( 1892 - 1946 ), Russia n-born Chess world champion
- Jean-Michel Atlan ( 1913 - 1960 ), poet and painter
- Georges Auric ( 1899 - 1983 ), composer, member of '' Les Six ''
- Frédéric Bartholdi ( 1834 - 1904 ), sculptor of the '' Statue Of Liberty ''
- Maryse Bastié ( 1898 - 1952 ), pioneer aviatrix
- Jane Bathori ( 1877 - 1970 ), opera singer
- Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 - 1867 ), famous poet
- Louis Gustave Binger ( 1856 - 1936 ), explorer
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau ( 1825 - 1905 ), artist (painter in Realist style)
- Antoine Bourdelle ( 1861 - 1921 ), sculptor & teacher
- Jacques Becker ( 1906 - 1960 ), filmmaker
- Samuel Beckett ( 1906 - 1989 ), Irish author, playwright & poet
- Simone De Beauvoir ( 1908 - 1986 ), feminist philosopher & author
- Jean Béraud (1849-1935), painter
- Constantin Brancusi ( 1876 - 1957 ), Romania n-born sculptor
- Brassaï (born Gyula Halász) ( 1899 - 1984 ), photographer
- Roger Caillois ( 1913 - 1978 ), author
- Jean Carmet ( 1920 - 1994 ), actor
- Emmanuel Chabrier ( 1841 - 1894 ), composer
- André Citroën ( 1878 - 1935 ), founded France's Citroën automobile factory
- Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis ( 1792 - 1843 ), mathematician
- Julio Cortázar ( 1914 - 1984 ), Argentinian author
- Antoine Augustin Cournot ( 1801 - 1877 ), economist
- Jules Dalou ( 1838 - 1902 ), sculptor
- Pierre David-Weill ( 1900 - 1975 ), banker, Chairman of Lazard Frères
- Jacques Demy ( 1931 - 1990 ), film director
- Robert Desnos ( 1900 - 1945 ), Surrealist poet
- Porfirio Díaz ( 1830 - 1915 ), longest serving Mexican President
- Alfred Dreyfus ( 1859 - 1935 ), military officer convicted of treason (the Dreyfus Affair )
- Jules Dumont D'Urville ( 1790 - 1842 ), explorer of South Pacific & discoverer of Venus De Milo
- Marguerite Duras ( 1914 - 1996 ), author & movie director
- Henri Fantin-Latour ( 1836 - 1904 ), artist
- Léon-Paul Fargue ( 1876 - 1947 ), poet and essayist
- Ernest Flammarion ( 1846 - 1936 ), publisher
- César Franck ( 1822 - 1890 ), composer & organist
- Othon Friesz ( 1879 - 1949 ), painter
- Charles Garnier ( 1825 - 1898 ), designed the original Paris Opera House for Napoleon III
''(Since the construction of the new Paris Opera House in 1989,'' ( Opéra Bastille ) ''the building has been known as ''Opéra Garnier'' or ''Palais Garnier''.)
- Serge Gainsbourg ( 1928 - 1991 ), poet and singer
- François Gérard ( 1770 - 1837 ), artist
- Clara Haskil ( 1895 - 1960 ), pianist
- Jean Antoine Houdon ( 1741 - 1828 ), famous sculptor of notable men
- Joris-Karl Huysmans ( 1848 - 1907 ), author
- Eugène Ionesco ( 1909 - 1994 ), Romanian playwright
- Joëlle ( 1953 - 1982 ), American-born French singer
- Henri Langlois ( 1914 - 1977 ), film preservationist
- Pierre Larousse ( 1817 - 1875 ), French author of a well-known Encyclopedia of Gastronomy , Larousse Gastronomique
- Henri Laurens ( 1885 - 1954 ), sculptor, engraver
- Alphonse Laveran ( 1845 - 1922 ), physician, parasitologist
- Philippe Léotard ( 1940 - 2001 ), teacher, actor, poet, singer
- Sylvia Lopez ( 1931 - 1959 ), actress
- Guy De Maupassant ( 1850 - 1893 ), author
- Adah Isaacs Menken ( 1835 - 1868 ), actress, poet
- André Meyer ( 1898 - 1979 ), French/American financier
- Mireille ( 1906 - 1996 ), singer, composer
- Simon Petlyura ( 1879 - 1926 ), Ukrainian leader
- Maria Montez ( 1912 - 1951 ), actress
- Maurice Pialat ( 1925 - 2003 ), film director
- Jules Henri Poincare , ( 1854 – 1912 ), mathematician and physicist
- Jean Poiret ( 1926 - 1992 ), actor, film director
- Jean Pierre Rampal ( 1922 - 2000 ), Flautist
- Man Ray ( 1890 - 1976 ), American-born Dada & Surrealist artist and photographer
- Serge Reggiani ( 1922 - 2004 ), singer, actor
- François Rude ( 1784 - 1855 ), sculptor
- Jean Sablon ( 1906 - 1994 ), singer
- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve ( 1804 - 1869 ), literary critic, author
- Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1835 - 1921 ), composer & performer of Romantic classical music
- Jean-Paul Sartre ( 1905 - 1980 ), French Philosopher & novelist
- Claude Sautet ( 1924 - 2000 ), film director
- Jean Seberg ( 1938 - 1979 ), American actress & civil rights activist
- Delphine Seyrig ( 1932 - 1990 ), actress
- Susan Sontag ( 1933 - 2004 ), author (wrote famous essay " Notes On Camp ")
- Tristan Tzara ( 1896 - 1963 ), Romanian Dadaist poet and essayist
- César Vallejo ( 1892 - 1938 ), Peruvian poet
- Adolphe Willette ( 1857 - 1926 ), painter
- Ossip Zadkine ( 1890 - 1967 ), Russian-born sculptor & artist
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