Thursday, September 01, 2011

Literary Graveyards


Publishers Weekly walks amongst the rows of dead.

From the piece...

Montparnasse Cemetery has been around since 1824 and is a big tourist attraction in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris. Since it opened, more than 300,000 people have been buried there, and 1,000 burials happen there every year.

Notable writer burials: Charles Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, Eugène Ionesco, Guy de Maupassant, Jean-Paul Sartre, Susan Sontag, César Vallejo.

Other notable burial: Émile Durkheim.

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