Notable former residents of the area lie in the Montparnasse cemetery, accessible from the boulevard Edgar Quinet, where you can pay homage to Sartre, de Beauvoir, Baudelaire, Maupassant and André Citroën.
This vast cemetery, laid out in 1795 and covering 25 acres, is one of the best known in Paris, including the graves of composers Delibes, Berlioz and Offenbach, painters Dégas and Fragonard, writers Heine, Dumas, Stendhal and Dumas.
