View from the Top (Tour Montparnasse)

Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse is a 210-meter (689-foot) tall office tower located in the Montparnasse area of Paris. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it is the tallest skyscraper in France.

Paris: View from Tour Maine-Montparnasse showing the famous Montparnasse Cemetery located in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city's 14th arrondissement. Montparnasse Cemetery is the eternal home of many of France's intellectual and artistic elite as well as publishers and others who promoted the works of authors and artists. There are also monuments to police and firefighters killed in the line of duty in the city of Paris. Among the most famous of those interred here are: Samuel Beckett, André Citroën, Alfred Dreyfus, Bernard Lacoste, Guy de Maupassant, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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Paris: View from Tour Maine-Montparnasse showing the famous Montparnasse Cemetery located in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris, part of the city's 14th arrondissement. Montparnasse Cemetery is the eternal home of many of France's intellectual and artistic elite as well as publishers and others who promoted the works of authors and artists. There are also monuments to police and firefighters killed in the line of duty in the city of Paris. Among the most famous of those interred here are: Samuel Beckett, André Citroën, Alfred Dreyfus, Bernard Lacoste, Guy de Maupassant, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

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