Montmartre the Tour: La Place Des Abbesses (The Abbesses Square), the Small Streets, La Place Du Tertre (The Tertre Square), Le Sacré-Coeur (The Sacred Heart)

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MONTMARTRE THE TOUR: LA PLACE DES ABBESSES (THE ABBESSES SQUARE), THE SMALL STREETS, LA PLACE DU TERTRE (THE TERTRE SQUARE), LE SACRÉ-COEUR (THE SACRED HEART)

LE SACRÉ-COEUR

THE SMALL STREETS

LA PLACE DU TERTRE

LES ABBESSES

Lenght: Means of locomotion: on foot - 3H00 walking, Access for persons with reduced - half a day: walking + visit of the mobility : no Sacré-Coeur, Total distance: 4km - the entire day: walking + visit of Starting point: Place des Abbesses the Sacré-Coeur, the Montmartre (metro line 12, Abbesses station, museum and the Dali area. or the Montmartrobus Abbesses station) Public: All restaurant, « Le Relais de la Butte » (The Mound Inn), once called « Chez Azon » (At Azon’s). At the beginning of the 20th century, Father Azon gladly welcomed and fed all the penniless artists from the bateau- lavoir who paid him with works of art... which did not prevent him from Take rue des Abbesses going bankrupt ! (Abbesses Street) on your right and keep going forward for about 50 Climb the steps of this Emile metres. Goudeau small square (ex Ravignan Square). It is the same quietness At the Abbesses passage entrance, impression that we found in the on your right, graffities, drawings, Place des Abbesses, with benches, stencils and other inlays are trees, the big Wallace fountain, and animating the walls. some funny graffities. Pay close attention, you will have the opportunity to see many others On your left, with your back turned throughout the walk. to the steps, stands a recently cleaned building with white blinds Carry on and take rue Ravignan and green doors is the famous (Ravignan Street) on your right. bateau-lavoir. It is Montmartre oldest street.

n°7 From 1907 to 1911, the poet Max Jacob lived in a box room at the bottom of the courtyard. The poet Pierre Reverdy took his place until 1912, when Jacob joined the bateau- lavoir, where this rue Ravignan leads you.

Before climbing the square few steps, on your right, at the corner of rue des Trois-Frères (The Three Brothers Street) is located a

Circuits Parallèles LE BATEAU-LAVOIR The bateau-lavoir other tenants or (The Boat Wash House) regular visitors were the painters Kees Van Dongen, Maurice de At the end of the 19th century, Vlaminck, Georges Braque, Juan this building belonged to a Gris, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent locksmith. He decided to turn it and Théo Van Gogh, to name into a studio. Even if an architect the most famous. All of the 19th took part in the new layout, the century artistic movements, result was nothing less than unusual: Impressionism, Fauvism and a set of compartmentalised wooden Cubism, lived together in this elements, with corridors that look house. Among literary men, Max like boats gangways. The difference Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre in height is so large that it is hard to Reverdy, André Salmon and Pierre know if there are two or three levels. Mac Orlan met. Their stays were The general impression given by the more or less lengthy, depending on building: a labyrinth. Of course, there whether their works were sold... or was no gas nor electricity and only not. one watering place on the landing for all the building. In 1909, Picasso left the Nevertheless, numerous artists, bateau-lavoir to settle in a more and not the least, lived and comfortable flat in Boulevard de gathered there to work, to talk Clichy (Clichy Boulevard). Yet, he about their works or to put the kept a studio. « We will return to world to rights and thus create the bateau-lavoir. This is the only lasting friendships. place where we would have only been truly happy » he said to his In 1892, Maxime Maufra was the friend and poet André Salmon. first to arrive. He was a landscape The First World War stopped painter and Paul Gauguin’s pupil. the creative spirit which lived in In 1904, Pablo Picasso settled this place and made it move to there. It marked the end of his Blue Montparnasse.The bateau-lavoir Period and the beginning of the Rose was classified by the French historic Period. In 1907, this is where the Monument Association in 1969. In master created « Les demoiselles 1970, a fire partially destroyed it. d’Avignon » (The Young Ladies of It was rebuilt with concrete and is Avignon). This painting annouced his currently occupied by 25 studios. change of style and the beginning of Modern art.

Maxime Maufra paintings Féérie nocturne: Exposition Universelle Paris 1900 La baie de Concarneau La prairie d’Amont Maurice de Vlaminck paintings https://youtu.be/NQEfRfTmZsM Kees van Dongen paintings https://youtu.be/wcM-3RuTNh0 Juan Gris paintings https://youtu.be/zTeFPPL81cU

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