Above: Ready to leave the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye Jardins de la Dauphine.
1 shows the bell tower of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
2 shows the Lion for La Defense Nationale at Place Denfert-Rochereau in Paris.
3 to 13 show gravestones, statues, mausoleums in the Cimetière du Montparnasse, the second largest cemetery in Paris. Plots of note ...
... 6 Maurice Pialat, 1925-2003, French film director, including one of my favourites, À Nos Amours (1983).
... 7 Jules Valadon, 1826-1900, French artist, whose work was often shown in the Paris Salon.
... 8 to 10 shows the Moulin de la Charité, at one time a flour mill into the early 1800's, then used as the caretaker's residence, and now as storage.
... 11 Comtesse de Ségur, 1799-1874, a French writer of Russian birth.
... 12 and 13, Jacques Demy (1931-1990) and Agnès Varda (1928-2018), both French new wave filmmakers, the former making one of my all-time
favourites, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), and Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), and the latter films such as Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
and Vagabond (1985).
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