Montmartre

Everyone has its own definition and its own geography of Montmartre. More than a neighbourhood, its brings in mind all the symbols of Paris, thanks to all the artist that walked on its ground.

the rue Becquerel stairways, on the bottom of the Butte, north slope

Its great painters, the impressionnists Renoir, Manet, Degas, the cubist Picasso, its white basilica, the color of the plaster extracted from the gypse, that has put “More Montmartre in Paris that Paris in Montmartre”. Its poeters, Appolinaire, Max Jacob, its Lapin Agile’s nights and Bateau-Lavoir’s nights, all brought Montmartre to the top of world’s imaginary. But nothing changed the butte, the former land of Abbaye of Montmartre abbess, from which remains Saint Pierre’s church, master piece of the middle age.