Paris - Montmartre

The Montmartre cemetery, the second largest in Paris, was opened in 1795. It contains the graves of Heinrich Heine, Jean- Honoré Fragonard and Hector Berlioz (Avenue Hector Berlioz), Théophile Gautier (Avenue Cordier), Edgar Degas (Avenue de Montebello), Jacques Offenbach (Avenue des Anglais), Stendhal (Avenue de la Croix), Emile Zola (Carrefour de la Croix), François Truffaut, Samuel Beckett and many other notable figures.

The Bateau-Lavoir was destroyed in a fire in 1970. This small building which was once a piano factory was the place where Cubism was created by Picasso, Braque and Juan Gris. It has since been rebuilt and is now used as apartments and artist studios.

This exhibition displays over 110 vehicles in a 10,000 sq. area.

The Napoleonic memorabilia Masson fund visit by request only. Library that specialised in the history of France in the nineteenth century, installed in the private mansion of Thiers.

Montmartre, Paris's highest hill, has its only funicular, running between Place Saint-Pierre and the Sacré-Coeur.

The Moulin de la Galette is the last of Montmartre's windmills. It formed the inspiration for a number of painters including Renoir and Van Gogh.

This Paris museum contains over 1,200 pieces of Baccarat crystal illustrating its development from 1828 to the present day.

The Musée Dalí in Paris contains paintings and sculpture by Salvador Dalí.

Espace Dali has the only permanent exhibit entirely deddicated to Dali. Many of the sculptures illustrate literature such as Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote and excerpts from the Bible.

This is the house and studio of the Symbolist painter Gustave Moreau (1826-98), now a museum, with around 1,000 paintings and 7,000 drawings.

This is the smallest museum in the world. It is the former home of the 20th century composer.

The Musée Roybet-Fould in Paris contains dolls and toys; sculpture by Antoine Carpeaux (19th C.).

Halle Saint-Pierre is redeveloped by Pavillon Baltard. There are permanent collections of naive art from around the world.

This is the museum of Jewish art and contains art objects from Poland.

There are tomb stones, models of synagogues and a specialized book shop.

The Musée de la Vie Roantique in Rue Chaptal (No. 16) in Montmartre displays numerous mementos of the artistic and literary figures who frequented the salon of the Dutch painter Ary Scheffer (1795-1858) in this elegant villa of the Restoration period, among them George Sand and Chopin, Delacroix, Liszt, Ingres, Lamartine and Turgenev.

There are documents tracing back the history of the Order in France.

In the triangular Place des Abbesses is one of the handsomest of Paris's Métros, with an Art Nouveau entrance by Victor Guimard. Opposite it is the church of Saint-Jean- l'Evangéliste (by Anatole de Baudot, 1904), a concrete structure faced with red brick notable for its simplicity and clarity of form.

The church of Saint-Pierre in Rue du Mont- Cenis in Montmartre is a relic of the 12th C Benedictine convent whose last abbess died on the guillotine in 1794. Four black marble columns in the choir and at the west end of the nave have survived from the original Merovingian church built in the seventh century on the site of a Roman temple of Mercury. The present church is mainly Early Gothic; the choir was consecrated in 1147 in presence of the great Catholic reformer Bernard of Clairvaux.