Montrouge Cemetery

The Montrouge Cemetery is surrounded by a high, austere stone wall that separates its quiet, grid-like paths from the dense urban growth of the fourteenth arrondissement. Opened in eighteen nineteen, it serves as a final resting place for local families and artists who lived in this corner of Paris. The most famous grave belongs to Henri Rousseau, the self-taught painter whose tombstone features a poem carved by his friend Guillaume Apollinaire. The stone monument remains a pilgrimage site for those admiring his vivid, jungle-filled canvases.