Cimetière de Montmartre

This guide to Cimetiere de Montmartre in Paris begins with the bronze dancer marking the grave of Vaslav Nijinsky, whose leaps once left Paris audiences gasping. At the height of his fame his mind broke, and psychiatrists diagnosed schizophrenia; the guide follows the thirty years that came after and the notebooks he filled along the way. It also wanders past Degas, Stendhal, Dalida and Truffaut, buried beneath the Rue Caulaincourt viaduct that carries traffic straight over the graves. Stand at the bridge's edge to take in how many lives rest below the road.