Edgar Quinet: history and sights
Served by: metro line 6.
Did you know?
Named after historian and philosopher Edgar Quinet, a figure of 19th-century republican Romanticism, this station serves the nearby Montparnasse cemetery.
Anecdote
Edgar Quinet was exiled under the Second Empire for his firm opposition to Napoleon III.
Around Edgar Quinet
- Cimetière du Montparnasse, 350 m away — The second largest cemetery in Paris, the final resting place of Baudelaire, Sartre and Beauvoir.
- Marché Edgar-Quinet, 90 m away — A lively neighbourhood market, complemented by an artists' flea market on Sundays.
- Tour Montparnasse, 220 m away — An iconic skyscraper offering one of the finest panoramas over Paris from its summit.