Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse cemetery was originally known as Le Cimeti re du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimeti re des Innocents in 1786 on the fringe of Les Halles food market on the grounds that it presented a health hazard. Several new cemeteries outside of the precincts of the capital replaced all the Parisian ones in the early 19th century, Cimeti re de Montmartre in the north, Le Cimeti re P re Lachaise in the east and Cimeti re du Montparnasse in the south. At the heart of the city, and today, sitting in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, is Cimeti re 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 writers 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.
Cimetière de Montmartre, Paris - resting place of Emile Zola, Edgar Degas, Georges Feydeau, other artists and writers.
CimetieredeMontparnasse, Paris - serves the great artistic quarter of Montparnasse, including the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Ionesco, Samuel Beckett, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Man Ray.
Cimetière de Saint-Ouen, Paris - where Joan of Arc was led for the public renunciation of her sins.
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