I know they leave tickets at Serge Gainsbourg's grave because of his some "le poinconneur des lilas", but why is it in several pictures of Sartre's grave people have done the same thing for him?|||Probably because they've made a pilgrimage to this grave and want to leave something of themselves there. The Metro ticket might be all they have, so it's left as a votive offering. People also leave flowers, feathers, ribbons, photos, whatever they have at the time.
And a question for you. Why do you think the tickets were left there for Jean-Paul Sartre? They might easily have been left for his partner Simone de Beauvoir who is buried in the same grave.
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That I know, and this may be just a rumour, it was because he supported a leftist group in France known as "the French Maoists". The Maoists would sometimes execute Robin-Hood-esque operations in which they would steal from the rich and give to the poor, and in one of their most famous heists they stole Metro tickets.
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