MONTMARTRE

This Parisian neighborhood was probably the first example in history of professional artists settling in previously underinhabited real estate, in this case a quiet, somewhat hilly district quite far from the center of the city, giving the enclave an avant-garde identity. Artists, writers, and performers who felt that the Left Bank of the Seine was becoming too bourgeois or expensive seized on this opportunity, defining themselves as alternative, not only artistically but geographically, the fact...