Above: The Génie du Sommeil Eternel statue in the Cimetière du Montparnasse.
1 to 11 show gravestones, statues, mausoleums in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, the second largest cemetery in Paris. Plots of note ...
... 3 Jean Seberg, 1938-1979, American actress who came to France and starred in Jean-Luc Godard new wave film Breathless, and others.
She got involved with the Black Panthers, the FBI planted false rumours to ruin, they basically hounded her to death by suicide.
... 7 and 8 Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) and Simone De Beauvoir (1908-1986), French writers and philosophers. Sartre was a key figure in
Existentialism, which studies "the problem of human existence and centers on the subjective experience of thinking, feeling, and acting."
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