Montparnasse Cemetery

The Montparnasse Cemetery holds a distinct, quiet density, defined by rows of densely packed gray stone tombs tucked behind long stretches of high perimeter walls. It occupies land once owned by charitable religious orders, but by the early nineteenth century, the city seized the property to bury the overflow of Paris. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir share a single grave here, often covered in lipstick kisses and metro tickets left by visitors, while Charles Baudelaire lies under a somber, weeping marble figure.