Montparnasse Cemetery
Storied Left Bank cemetery where metro tickets cover Gainsbourg's grave and Sartre shares a slab with de Beauvoir.
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This guide to Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris opens at the shared grave of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, where someone leaves a fresh rose every morning. Walk deeper and you reach a stranger tribute: Serge Gainsbourg's grave, buried under ordinary paper tickets left by strangers who won't say why. Along the way the guide passes Baudelaire, Beckett, Maupassant, Brancusi and Man Ray, the restless minds who made the Left Bank mythic. Listen for the 1958 song that started it all.
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