Montparnasse

Montparnasse Poulenc's setting (1941 / 1945) for voice and piano of a poem by Apollinaire. The poem, possibly written in 1911 or 1912 when Apollinaire spent Sundays at Gabrielle Picabia's (born Gabrielle Buffet (18–), wife of painter Francis Picabia [188? – 197?]) home in Garches, was first published in Vers et Prose in 1913. Montparnasse is an area of Paris on the Left Bank that in the early 20th century had a lively artistic community, differing from that in Montmartre by the presence of more…