Visite guidée : Cimetière Montparnasse

Much more modest in size than its big brother in the east, Père Lachaise, it is just as intriguing for the imaginative tombs found there and surprising for those who chose it as their final resting place...

Named by young students who came here to recite verses, "Mont Parnasse" was once a dumping ground for the neighboring quarries. In the seventeenth century, the monks of the Hôtel-Dieu (then owners of the site) erected the windmill, wingless to this day, which still stands as the guardian of the 35 000 graves...