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e Cimetière de the 19th century, both mills
Montmartre became famous dance halls
providing inspiration for many
20 Ave Rachel 75018. Map 2 D5. artists, notably Pierre-Auguste
Tel 01 53 42 36 30. q Place de Clichy, Renoir and Vincent Van Gogh.
Blanche. Open 8am–6pm Mon–Fri, The steep Rue Lepic is a busy
8:30am–6pm Sat, 9am–6pm Sun; shopping area. The Impressionist
closes at 5:30pm in winter. 7 8 call
01 53 42 36 30. painter Armand Guillaumin once
lived on the first floor of No. 54.
This has been the resting place Van Gogh inhabited its third floor,
for many artistic luminaries since and painted the view from there.
the beginning of the 19th
century. The composers Hector
Berlioz and Jacques Offenbach t Avenue Junot
(who wrote the famous cancan 75018. Map 2 E5. q Lamarck-
tune) are buried here, along side Moulin de la Galette Caulaincourt.
many other celebrities such as
La Goulue (stage name of whose works are now some of Opened in 1910, this broad,
Louise Weber, the high-kicking the most enduring images of peaceful street includes many
danseuse who was the can can’s the district. painters’ studios and beautiful
first star performer and Toulouse- Art Deco houses. No. 13 has
Lautrec’s model), the painter r Moulin de la mosaics designed by its former
Edgar Degas, writer Alexandre resident, illustrator Francisque
Dumas fils, German poet Galette Poulbot, who was famous for his
Heinrich Heine, Russian dancer T-junction at Rue Tholozé and Rue drawings of children and street
Vaslav Nijinsky and film director Lepic 75018. Map 2 E5. q Lamarck- urchins. At No. 15 is Maison
François Truffaut. It’s an Caulaincourt, Abbesses. Tristan Tzara, named after its
evocative, atmospheric place, previous owner, the Romanian
conveying some of the heated Once, some 14 windmills dotted Dadaist poet. Its eccentric design
energy and artistic creativity of the Montmartre skyline and were by the Austrian architect Adolf
Montmartre a century ago. used for grinding wheat and Loos aimed to complement the
Nearby, close to Square Roland pressing grapes. Today, only two poet’s character. No. 23 is Villa
Dorgelès, is another, smaller, remain, both on Rue Lepic: the Léandre, with its quaint Anglo-
often over looked Montmartre Radet, now above a restaurant Norman style houses.
cemetery – Cimetière St-Vincent. confusingly named Moulin de la Just off the Avenue Junot up
Here lie more of the great artistic Galette and the reconstructed the steps of the Allée des
names of the district, including Moulin de la Galette, originally Brouillards is an 18th-century
Swiss composer Arthur Honegger built in 1622 and formerly known architectural folly, the Château
and the writer Marcel Aymé. as the Blute-fin. One of its mill des Brouillards. In the 19th
Most notable of all at owners, Debray, was supposedly century, it was the home of the
St-Vincent is the grave of the crucified on the windmill’s sails French Symbolist writer Gérard
great French painter Maurice during the 1814 Siege of Paris. He de Nerval, who took his pet
Utrillo, the quintessential had been trying to repulse the lobster for walks inthe Palais-
Montmartre artist, many of invading Cossacks. At the end of Royal gardens.

Cimetière de Montmartre, the final resting place of many famous artists and writers

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