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Cimetiere du Montparnasse was used during the French revolution for the burial of unclaimed bodies. As one wanders through this cemetery you will come upon famialar and famous names such as: Jean-Paul Sartre, Guy de Maupassant and Baudelaire, Popular French singer Serge Gainsbourg, along with American artist Man Ray and Italian sculpture Constantin Brancusi.

Des Egoute de Paris- Visit the "city beneath the city." Hold your nose and visit a small labyrinth of the Paris sewers at the Sewer Museum. See this incredible system that help made Paris the great city that it is today. See the work of Baron Haussmann, the prefect for the Seine, and the engineer Eugene Belgrand who thought up the present system of Parisian sewer and water supply networks.

Cimetiere du Pere-Lachaise the largest cemetary in Paris is located in the 20th arrondissement, reputedly the most visited cemetery in the world. It is impossible to list all of the celebrities who rest here (under the shade of 12,000 trees), alongside more ordinary Parisians. Some of the people buried here: composers Frederic Chopin, George Bizet, French artists, Gericault and David, Oscar Wilde, along with Americans Gertrude Stein and Jim Morrison.

Les Catacobes de Paris are ancient quarries of Paris in which bones of Parisians were stored in order to solve the overpopulation in the cities cemetaries. You can visit a small section of these underground quarries that contain the remains of generations of Parisians. The Paris catacombs run 20 meters underground, a 1,500 meter-long maze of galleries stacked neatly with bones and skulls. Night after night a procession carried the remains from different cemetaries of Paris to their new resting place. These include the bones of Revolutionaries Danton and Robespierre.

Cimetiere de Montmarte opened officially on January 1, 1825 as the Cimetiere du Nord. In the 16th century quarries occupied the land where the cemetary is now located. In a romantic forest of overwhelming calm one can visit the famous personalities that reflect this area's artistic and theatrical past:Francois Truffaut, Alexandre Dumas Jr., Edgar Degas, Yaslav Nijinski and diva Dalida.