A cemetery of inner Paris
Located not far from the Hôtel du Parc, this cemetery is one of the biggest ones of the capital by its extesion (with Père-Lachaise and Montmartre cemetery). It was opened in 1824 to replace the numerous cemeteries that were closing at the time in the center of Paris (like the famous mass grave of the Innocents).
The eternal rest of artists
Many artists were buried here, let’s list some of them: the poet Charles Baudelaire, the novelist Henri de Maupassant, Jean-Paul Sartre and his companion Simone de Beauvoir (the founders of existentialism), the composer Camille Saint-Saëns (“le Carnaval des Animaux”) and Auguste Bartholdi (the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty: ‘Miss Liberty” in New York) and of the “Lion of Belfort” in the Denfert-Rochereau square. And more recently… Serge Gainsbourg and Coluche.
