West of the Butte, near the beginning of rue Caulaincourt in place Clichy, lies the Montmartre cemetery (March 16–Nov 5 Mon–Fri 8am–6pm, Sat from 8.30am, Sun from 9am; Nov 6–March 15 closes 5.30pm; M° Blanche & M° Place-de-Clichy). Tucked down below street level in the hollow of an old quarry, it's a tangle of trees and funerary pomposity, more intimate and less melancholy than Père-Lachaise or Montparnasse.The illustrious dead at rest here include Stendhal, Berlioz, Degas, Feydeau, Offenbach, Nijinsky and François Truffaut, as well La Goulue, the dancer at the Moulin Rouge immortalized by Toulouse-Lautrec. Zola's grave is here too, though his remains have been transferred to the Panthéon. There's also a large Jewish section by the east wall. The entrance is on avenue Rachel under rue Caulaincourt, next to an antique cast-iron poor-box (Tronc pour les Pauvres).
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