I'm still procrastinating on packing - so I'll write up another adventure. Today we finally got around to going across the street to the Cemetery of Montparnasse. This last resting place for Permanent Parisians is in a beautiful park-like setting with many benches for stopping, reading, or enjoying the weather. Many people were doing that today! The cemetery is not as old as Pere Lachaise and it does not have as many famous people - but it is worth visiting. There are many interesting funerary sculptures - several very modern and a few that are outright strange. I'm going to let the pictures do the talking.
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| I have NO explanation! |
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| Engraved on the fish is - "He makes his choice of anchovies and he dines on a sardine." I have no idea! |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir |
Sartre and de Beauvoir lived just down the street from our apartment on Blvd. Raspail and frequented the cafes of Montparnasse. The things on the grave are tokens from admirers. Why there are used bus and metro tickers, I do not know? You often find these kinds of things on other graves in Paris.
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| A not so famous academic but in an interesting sculpture in his library! |
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| Different! |
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| Poet Charles Beaudalaire |
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Sculptor Henri Laurens' Grave
Sculpture titled Sorrow |
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