This spacious and sedate enclosed cemetery is located in the southern part of the city. A bit less touristy than other scenic burial grounds in Paris, Montparnasse Cemetery nonetheless fills the celebrity quotient as the final resting place of philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, author Samuel Beckett, pop icon Serge Gainsbourg (whose grave is often piled with metro tickets in memory of his most famous song about a metro ticket collector), poet Charles Baudelaire (his gravestone has a remarkable statue of a bat with folded wings, and the poet's effigy perched on top) and many others. Open mid-March to early November Monday-Friday 8 am-6 pm, Saturday 8:30 am-6 pm, Sunday 9 am-6 pm; early November to mid-March Monday-Friday 8 am-5:30 pm, Saturday 8:30 am-5:30 pm, Sunday 9 am-5:30 pm. Boulevard Raspail at Rue Edgar Quinet (14th; Metro Raspail), Paris. Phone 01-4410-8650. http://www.paris.fr/portail/english/Portal.lut?page_id=8222.
