The main entrance is located at 3 Bd Edgar Quinet, it takes a full day to greet the hundred personalities buried there. The complete list would be too long but how not to mention these few names?

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Desnos, Georges Sand, Camille Saint Saëns, François Rude, Charles Garnier, Maupassant, Sainte-Beuve, Alfred Dreyfus, without forgetting the most recent like Jean Carmet or Serge Gainsbourg…

The establishment of the cemetery favored the arrival of artists, first of all craftsmen and sculptors in funerary art, which flourished particularly in the 19th century, then the installation of numerous taverns, places of meeting and conviviality which later welcomed painters, poets, intellectuals, photographers…

Source: L?histoire en ligne.

Picture: Daillion – Wikipedia