"Madame Hidalgo, do not destroy the neighborhood of Apollinaire, Picasso and Hemingway!"

Madam Mayor of Paris, in order to display a project of social diversity, do we really have to massacre Paris, its past and its soul?

We cannot believe it.

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Between the boulevards Montparnasse and Raspail and the place Denfert-Rochereau, still lives one of the rare districts of Paris which keeps the memory of its artists and writers.

There, in about fifty workshops, lived, worked and loved each other Apollinaire and Marie Laurencin, Picasso, Modigliani, Soutine, Hemingway and so many others.

Coming from Poland, Spain, Italy and America, all had chosen Paris as their homeland.

They met at Bal Bullier, Closerie des Lilas, La Rotonde, Select and La Coupole, cafes and brasseries since, in their memory, listed as historical monuments.

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Almost a century later, and despite much degradation, their neighborhood survives.

Theaters like the Théâtre de Poche and the Théâtre Montparnasse make the spirit shine there.

Exhibition venues such as the Fondation Cartier, with architecture

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