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at Montmartre district near Basilica: The name Montmartre was originally Roman meaning "Mount of Mars" but was later changed by less pagan French to "Mount of Martyrs" or Montmartre. Bohemian Paris continues in Montmartre, setting off from the metro station Odéon. Souvenirs of the workshops of Picasso and Utrillo, the birth of cubism, cabarets, vines, popular songs and painters in the place du Tertre … the picture is complete, night falls over the city.
Montmartre is talked about by Parisians the way New Yorkers talk about the Village.
UL From the square you can wander the packed streets or sit in a café but be warned that the prices are higher and you will most likely be surrounded by tour groups and howling children. It's much better to duck down a side street or go to a café nearer to Abbesses.
UR across the street is the Place du Tertre where the legends of 20th century art used to roam. Now it's filled with watercolors, portrait sketchers and caricaturists. You can't blame them for trying to make some money, and a few are actually good artists who need money, but for the most part it reminds us of that lost generation of artists who lived and worked here before the commercialization of everything. Picasso, Vlamenck, Derain, Soutine, Modigliani, Van Gogh and countless others lived and worked in these narrow streets.
Middle - A stone's throw from Place du Tertre, on the façade of the Restaurant La Bohème Montmartre, Christian Guémy, a French street artist hailing from Paris, painted several portraits of the painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864 – 1901). A painter of post-impressionism, illustrator of Art Nouveau and remarkable lithographer, he sketched the lifestyle of Parisian Bohemia at the end of the 19th century.
LL The Consulate was the meeting place for the greatest artists, notably painters like Picasso. Sisley. Diaz. Van Gogh, Toulouse Laure, Monet. Maurice Utrillo basing his work on a desire for perfection in the description of the streets of Montmartre, realism, was inspired by La Maison Rose and then by the Consulate (1909).
LR At the beginning of the 20th century, La Bohème was an essential place in Montmartre life. Ideally located on the Place du Tertre, local artists such as Degas, Puvis de Chavanne, Toulouse-Lautrec were among the regulars.
To meet the challenge of making this place both modern without denying its past, the cuisine, the painting, the furniture, the decor, everything was transformed in 2022. Some 300 people can be accommodated in the different rooms and a hundred on the terrace in the summer.
Montmartre is talked about by Parisians the way New Yorkers talk about the Village.
UL From the square you can wander the packed streets or sit in a café but be warned that the prices are higher and you will most likely be surrounded by tour groups and howling children. It's much better to duck down a side street or go to a café nearer to Abbesses.
UR across the street is the Place du Tertre where the legends of 20th century art used to roam. Now it's filled with watercolors, portrait sketchers and caricaturists. You can't blame them for trying to make some money, and a few are actually good artists who need money, but for the most part it reminds us of that lost generation of artists who lived and worked here before the commercialization of everything. Picasso, Vlamenck, Derain, Soutine, Modigliani, Van Gogh and countless others lived and worked in these narrow streets.
Middle - A stone's throw from Place du Tertre, on the façade of the Restaurant La Bohème Montmartre, Christian Guémy, a French street artist hailing from Paris, painted several portraits of the painter Henri de Toulouse Lautrec (1864 – 1901). A painter of post-impressionism, illustrator of Art Nouveau and remarkable lithographer, he sketched the lifestyle of Parisian Bohemia at the end of the 19th century.
LL The Consulate was the meeting place for the greatest artists, notably painters like Picasso. Sisley. Diaz. Van Gogh, Toulouse Laure, Monet. Maurice Utrillo basing his work on a desire for perfection in the description of the streets of Montmartre, realism, was inspired by La Maison Rose and then by the Consulate (1909).
LR At the beginning of the 20th century, La Bohème was an essential place in Montmartre life. Ideally located on the Place du Tertre, local artists such as Degas, Puvis de Chavanne, Toulouse-Lautrec were among the regulars.
To meet the challenge of making this place both modern without denying its past, the cuisine, the painting, the furniture, the decor, everything was transformed in 2022. Some 300 people can be accommodated in the different rooms and a hundred on the terrace in the summer.
Oct 06 2024