Cimetière du Montparnasse revisited #9: Le Moulin

I don't know why I've not included this before. The original moulin de la charité was constructed in 1661 and made flour. There were about thirty windmills in the area in the eighteenth century, although they were demolished during the building of the Boulevard Montparnasse. With the French revolution this remaining windmill became a guinguette, and when the cemetery was built in 1894 it became the cemetery warden's house, and lost its sails in 1850, long before its classification as a historic monument in 1931. Today gravediggers keep their equipment in it. The Tour Montparnasse is in the background to the right of the windmill.