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A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area. A few of the famous buried in the Montmartre Cemetery are: A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area. A few of the famous buried in the Montmartre Cemetery are:
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-[[Image:Vaslav Nijinsky tombstone.jpg|thumb|250px|Tombstone of [[Vaslav Nijinsky]] in Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris. The statue shows Nijinsky as the puppet [[Petrouchka]].]] 
-[[Image:Stendhal grave on cimetiere de montmartre paris 03.JPG|thumb|240px| Tomb of [[Stendhal]]]] 
-[[Image:Dalida - Tombe -Grave- - Cimetière de Montmartre (Paris).jpg|thumb|275px|Tomb of [[Dalida]]]] 
-[[Image:Offenbach jaques grave montmartre paris 04.jpg|thumb|240px|right|Tomb of [[Jacques Offenbach]]]] 
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Montmartre Cemetery (Fr: Cimetière de Montmartre) is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France.

Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetière des Innocents in 1786, as they presented health hazards. Several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones, outside the precincts of the capital, in the early 19th century: Montmartre in the north, Père-Lachaise Cemetery in the east, Passy Cemetery in the west and Montparnasse Cemetery in the south.

Located west of the Butte, near the beginning of Rue Caulaincourt in Place Clichy, the cemetery in the Montmartre quarter of Paris is built below street level in the hollow of an old quarry with its entrance on Avenue Rachel under Rue Caulaincourt. The cemetery epitomizes the artsy, quixotic, gentle, almost whimsical Paris that every romantic visitor secretly cherishes.

A popular tourist destination, it is the final resting place for many famous artists who lived and worked in the Montmartre area. A few of the famous buried in the Montmartre Cemetery are:

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