Montparnasse
Artist District/Cafe' Culture
Artist District/Cafe' Culture
- Montparnasse is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centered at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail. Montparnasse has been part of Paris since 1669.
- When all the artists left Montmartre at the beginning of World War I they didn’t migrate very far. In fact they just moved across the river to the district of Montparnasse.
- This neighborhood occupies the 14th arrondissement, a part of the 15th and the southern end of the 6th. After World War I, Montparnasse became infamous as the artistic and intellectual center of Paris and had some gathered an astonishing number of artistic IQs: Picasso, Miro, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Jean-Paul Sartre were all living there.
- Unfortunately much of Montparnasse was leveled in the 1960s to make way for a concrete train station and Paris's only - almost universally disliked - skyscraper, Tour Montparnasse.
- Today Montparnasse is an important business district and has cleaned up its act somewhat from the penniless bohemian days.
Montparnasse – The Artist District
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Montparnasse - Café Culture
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