Montmartre in a sentence

On 15 August 1534, seven students met in a crypt beneath the Church of Saint Denis (now Saint Pierre de Montmartre ), in Montmartre outside Paris.

The last of the bohemian Montmartre artists was Gen Paul (1895 1975), born in Montmartre and a friend of Utrillo.

Following episode 4, the characters venture outside Montmartre to visit places such as the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Shakespeare and Company, Notre-Dame, and the Pont des Arts bridge.

He is often depicted in art without his head, and that is because he was martyred by decapitation on Montmartre in the third century.

On their first full day in Paris, the pilgrims visited Sacre Coeur (the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre) and celebrated Mass there.

The French capital beckons travelers with a promise of memorable experiences that extend beyond squeezing into a restaurant on the crowded Place du Tertre in Montmartre or shopping on the Champs-Elysées.

With no more than four riders per team and no race radios, it was a recipe for chaos and so it proved long before they got the city centre circuit and the steep cobbled climb of the Butte Montmartre.

He produced his first collection in a small boutique in Galerie Vivienne from cheap fabrics from a Montmartre market.

It was in 1956 that Michou — born Michel Georges Alfred Catty — opened his tiny jewel box of a nightclub at the foot of Montmartre, the storied Paris neighborhood known for its nightclubs and connection with artists like Picasso and Toulouse-Lautrec.

She lived in Montmartre before her death in 1987 and a square is named in her honor.

Hugh found the place in 1949, she says, through a connection in a Montmartre paintshop.

A critic at the time of the premiere took a different view, hearing in the piece "the noise of a hack coming down from Montmartre" rather than the galloping fiery horses of Greek legend that inspired the piece.

Artists gather Théophile Steinlen's famous advertisement for the tour of Le Chat Noir cabaret During the Belle Époque from 1872 to 1914, many notable artists lived and worked in Montmartre, where the rents were low and the atmosphere congenial.

By 30 March, less than two weeks after the Army's Montmartre rout, it began skirmishing with the National Guard in the outskirts of Paris.

Death Gravestone of Émile Zola at cimetière Montmartre; his remains are now interred in the Panthéon Zola died on 29 September 1902 of carbon monoxide poisoning caused by an improperly ventilated chimney.

Dressed in black, his face powdered white, he performed world-wide, settling for nine years in Paris in 1923 to play the Montmartre cabarets.

He lived in Montmartre with his new wife and aging father in 1841.

He moved to a smaller room, still in Montmartre ( rue Cortot Nº 6 main, now a museum ), in 1890.

He skipped sold-out concerts to "walk to the beach" or "smell the dew". citation During this period he continued to attend the R-26 artistic salon in Montmartre, improvising with his devoted collaborator, Stéphane Grappelli.

He was particularly hated by the national guardsmen of Montmartre and Belleville because of the severe discipline he imposed during the siege of Paris.