Above: The unique grave of Claude and Annie Schiller 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 Jacques Chirac, 1932-2019, French president.
... 5 Alain Leseiutre grave, a copy of Canova's sculpture in the Louvre, "Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l'Amour" (Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss).
... 6 François Rude, French sculptor known for the Departure of the Volunteers, also known as La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe (1835–36).
... 7 Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet and art critic.
... 8 Memorial to the City of Paris police who died in the line of duty.
... 9 Alfred Dreyfus, OK its not that Alfred Dreyfus of the Dreyfus affair, a Jewish French artillery officer whose trial and conviction in 1894 on charges
of treason became one a hugely polarizing political drama in France. Except he wasn't guilty, and he was completely exonerated years later,
and served for France in World War I.
... 10 J. Ottavi Orateur, 1809-1841, a relative of Napoleon Bonaparte.
... 11 Paul Belmondo, 1898-1982, sculptor and father of the actor Jean-Paul Belmondo, star of many French films, including Jean-Luc Godard's
Breathless, with Jean Seberg.
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