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CIMETIÈRE DU MONTPARNASSE
Cemetery
( bd Edgar Quinet & rue Froidevaux, 14e; 8am-5.30 or 6pm Mon-Fri, 8.30am-6pm
Sat, 9am-6pm Sun; Edgar Quinet or Raspail)
Montparnasse Cemetery received its
first 'lodger' in 1824. It contains the tombs of such illustrious personages as the
poet Charles Baudelaire, writer Guy de Maupassant, playwright Samuel Beckett,
sculptor Constantin Brancusi, painter Chaim Soutine, photographer Man Ray, in-
dustrialist André Citroën, Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the infamous Dreyfus Affair, act-
or Jean Seberg, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, writer Simone de Beauvoir and the
crooner Serge Gainsbourg.
CATACOMBES
Ossuary
(
www.catacombes.paris.fr
, in French; 1 av Colonel Henri Roi-Tanguy, 14e; adult/child
€8/4; 10am-5pm Tue-Sun; Denfert Rochereau)
In 1785 it was decided to solve
the hygiene and aesthetic problems posed by Paris' overflowing cemeteries by ex-
huming the bones and storing them in the tunnels of three disused quarries. After
descending 20m (130 steps) from street level, visitors follow 1.7km of underground
corridors in which the bones and skulls of millions of former Parisians are neatly
stacked along the walls.
Faubourg St-Germain & Invalides
Paris' most fashionable neighbourhood during the 18th century was Faubourg St-
7e)
has been the official residence of the French prime minister since the start of
the Fifth Republic in 1958.
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