A small village became the most charismatic district of Paris
Montmartre is the most exclusive area of Paris and even France. This place has been for a long time a small village located a few kilometers from Paris. This village was characterized by its many mills that were used to grind grain. There are not many remains of this particular past if not the famous Moulin de la Galette or the mill equally famous cabaret: the Moulin Rouge. It was not until 1860 that the area was annexed to Paris Haussmann great builder of the city. Since Montmartre district of Paris is, without a doubt, the most visited in France.
Some mythical places of Montmartre to visit
The St Peter's Church
This parish is known to be the oldest in Paris. Today, the building that sits in Montmartre is only part of what was the great power and the famous abbey of Paris that was dedicated April 21, 1147, by the Pope. The building has some Romanesque of great beauty. Everything opens on the Place du Tertre, a place dedicated to the beauty of art that pays homage to the glorious past of the parish.
Place du Tertre
This ancient site is a testimony of the village of Montmartre. There still exists a relaxing atmosphere thanks to the presence of many quaint bars but mostly by artists who are present and exhibit their works. This square represents the main meeting place for villagers when Montmartre was still attached. This friendly character persisted and gives the place its charm that attracts so many people.
Place Pigalle
Place Pigalle is at the bottom of Montmartre; his name was given to him by a sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714/1785). This mecca of eroticism is now more famous for its theaters and cabarets for its music stores than for its sex shops. But the Place Pigalle always keep this symbol crazy Parisian nights. The most famous building of this place: the famous Red Mill.
red Mill
The success of this cabaret comes at a time when, in France, people felt a strong need to release between two wars, those of 1870 and the First World War in 1914. This tavern was built in 1889 to become a must exotic and erotic experiences. Many artists found their inspiration in this place whose most famous for his depictions of the place in his paintings: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Aristide Bunting remains one of the great ambassadors of this property even if the dancers of the place made known cabaret in the world. Let us dancers like La Goulue (now an array of Toulouse-Lautrec) or Mogador, originally quadrille dance, dance became the French Cancan. The Moulin Rouge experienced a slump early in the century before being reborn more beautiful and remain still today the symbol discounts Parisian nightlife to date recently by the film Moulin Rouge with Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
The Lapin Agile
It is said that this institution is the oldest cabarets of France; it certainly remains one of the friendly Montmartre. This wacky name, the cabaret is a painter named André Gill, who designed as teaching a rabbit jumping from a pan. This gave birth to a first name for the cabaret: the "rabbit Gill" which later became the "Lapin Agile". But it is only once resumed by Frédéric Gérard (called "Frede") that notoriety cabaret is built. Indeed, it offers a more artistic direction for his institution will enter from famous artists of all kinds such as Picasso, Caran D'Ache, Apollinaire or Utrillo. The most famous case of this cabaret rest of the painter "Boronali" and his work "The sunset over the Adriatic". This is, in fact, a hoax staged to ridicule the ideas of futurist school (defended by Picasso and Apollinaire, among others). The painter is none other than the ass of Frédé who are caught in a brush tip of the tail, the movement created shapes on a canvas. The work will still be exposed to independent living and sold 400 francs! The cabaret was bought by Aristide Bruant in 1902 and then sold in 1922 to the son of Frédé. This perpetuated the artistic ambitions of the institution that became for some years, the appointment of other major artists and musicians in France as Georges Brassens.
The Laundromat boat
This name is given in 1889 by Max Jacob in an old building in the Montmartre district. That place is the theater of cultural revolutions is also why attributed to him as the "city of artists". Admittedly, the wash vessel was known since 1880 to be an avant-garde housing the first impressionists. Foreign artists were naturally attracted to this reputation Modigliani and Picasso. Legend has it that he invented cubism in this very unhealthy. In 1970, a fire destroyed the building subsequently rebuilt in concrete.
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