Montparnasse is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine River. Montparnasse was a community where creativity was embraced with all its oddities, Its famous cafés (the Dôme, the Rotonde, the Coupole, and others) were long hubs of the Parisian artistic and intellectual world. The intersection of the Boulevard de Montparnasse and the Boulevard ... More> Raspail is the central. The quarter contains the Pasteur Institute, the ancient catacombs, and the Montparnasse cemetery, with the tombs of Saint-Saëns, Houdon, Baudelaire, Poincaré, César Franck, Maupassant, and Leconte de Lisle. Eiffel Tower is easy access from here.