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3 Place du Tertre Surrealist works to a soundtrack
of Dalí’s recorded voice. This
75018. Map 6 F1. q Abbesses.
fascin at ing museum also
Tertre means “hillock”, or houses a commercial art gallery,
mound, and this picturesque a library and a shop selling
square is the highest point in books, prints and postcards.
Paris at some 130 m (430 ft). It
was once the site of the abbey 5 Musée de
gallows but is asso ciated with
artists, who began exhibiting Montmartre
paintings here in the 19th 12 Rue Cortot 75018. Map 2 F5.
century. It is lined with Tel 01 49 25 89 37. q Abbesses,
colourful restaurants – La Mère Anvers, Blanche, Lamarck-
Catherine dates back to 1793. Caulaincourt. Open 10am–6pm daily
The house at No. 21 was (Jun–Sep: to 7pm). & ^ =
Paintings for sale and a restaurant on Place formerly the home of the ∑ museedemontmartre.fr
du Tertre, in Montmartre irreverent “Free Commune”,
founded in 1920 to perpetuate During the 17th century, this
2 St-Pierre de the Bohemian spirit of the area. charming home belonged to
Montmartre The Old Montmartre infor- the actor Roze de Rosimond
mation office is now here. (Claude de la Rose), a member
2 Rue du Mont-Cenis 75018. of Molière’s theatre company
Map 6 F1. Tel 01 46 06 57 63. who, like his mentor Molière,
q Abbesses. Open 9am–7:30pm died during a performance of
daily (to 6pm Fri). 5 various times. Molière’s play Le Malade
7 Concerts. ∑ saintpierrede
montmartre.net Imaginaire. From 1875, the
big white house, undoubtedly
Situated in the shadow of the the finest in Montmartre,
Sacré-Coeur basilica, St-Pierre provided living and studio
de Montmartre is one of the space for art ists, including
oldest churches in Paris. It is Maurice Utrillo and his mother,
all that remains of the great Suzanne Valadon, a former
Benedictine Abbey of acrobat and model who
Montmartre, which was became a talented painter,
founded in 1133 by Louis VI as well as Raoul Dufy and
and his wife, Adelaide of Savoy, Auguste Renoir.
who, as its first abbess, is The museum recounts the
buried here. history of Montmartre from the
Inside the church are four days of the abbesses to the
marble columns supposedly present, through artifacts,
from a Roman temple which Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí drawings and photographs. It is
once stood on the site. The particularly rich in memo rabilia
vaulted choir dates from 4 Espace Dalí of Bohemian life, and has a
the 12th century, the nave Montmartre reconstruction of the Café de
was remodelled in the 15th l’Abreuvoir, Utrillo’s favourite
century and the west front 11 Rue Poulbot 75018. Map 6 F1. watering hole.
in the 18th. During the Tel 01 42 64 40 10. q Abbesses.
Revolution, the abbess Open 10am–6pm daily (to 8pm Jul–
Aug). & 8 = 9 ∑ daliparis.com
was executed by
guillotine, and the
church fell into A permanent exhi-
disuse. St-Pierre bition of 330 works
was reconsecrated by the prolific
in 1908. Gothic- painter and sculptor
style stained-glass Salvador Dalí is
windows replace displayed here at the
those destroyed heart of Montmartre.
by a bomb in Inside, the vast, dark
World War II. The setting reflects the
tiny cemetery dramatic character
opens to the of this 20th-century
public only genius as moving
once a year, on lights grace first one,
1 November. Doors to St-Pierre church then another, of his Café de l’Abreuvoir reconstructed

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