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Montmartre
The Cimetiere de Montmartre has some famous residents including Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Jacques Offenbach, Hector Berlioz,
Edgar Degas, Francois Truffaut and Vaslav Nijinsky.
Montparnasse
This is the last resting place for many notables as well, including Samuel Beckett, Guy de Maupassant, Constantin Brancusi,
Man Ray, Andre Citroen, Jean Seberg, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Pere Lachaise
This is the 'daddy' of Paris cemeteries, if you'll pardon the pun. Over a million people are buried here and there are some
70,000 ornate tombs. It's more a museum and garden in its feel and the dead and famous include Frederic Chopin, Marcel Proust,
Eugene Delacroix, Honore de Balzac, Georges Seurat, Hilaire Belloc, Isadora Duncan, Max Ernst, Moliere, Gertrude Stein,
Vincenzo Bellini, Sarah Bernhardt, Yves Montand & Simone Signoret, Camille Pissarro, Edith Piaf (around 2 million Parisiens
turned out for her funeral in 1963), Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison.
For those interested, Chopin lived at 12 Vendome Place for only 3 weeks before he died of tuberculosis in 1849 and Oscar
Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde died in his hotel room at the Hotel d'Alsace, 13 Rue des Beaux Arts. Apparently his last
words came after he looked around at the florid wallpaper and he said, "One of us has to go."
Catacombes
And there are around six million people buried here. Not for the squeamish, tours go 20m below street level through
1.6km of corridors under the Left Bank, neatly lined with the exhumed bones and skulls of former Parisiens. The
French Resistance used the tunnels as a headquarters during World War II. The entrance is at 2 Place Denfert-Rochereau.
As Dr Evil would say, 'someone throw me a bone here'....
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