Nearly 400 pages, 2 kg net weight, more than 550 illustrations, it took at least that to carry out the extraordinary odyssey of the Montparnasse district which, at the beginning of the 20th century, was the capital's heyday.
"When Paris lit up the world"
, hums the subtitle of the colossal work by Mathyeu Le Bal, founder of the Les Montparnos gallery, a stone's throw from Select, La Coupole, the Dôme, La Rotonde and La Closerie des Lilacs, high places of creation.
We are in the years 1900-1920, in full whirlwind, in the non-pebbled passage of the fine arts.
From the Montmartre hill to the Montparnasse hill, from one bank to the other, there was only one stride for the artists, one crossing: that of the Seine.
Montparnasse, welcome!
Everyone get down!
“Montparnasse is already replacing Montmartre. Mountaineering for mountaineering is always the mountain”
, said Apollinaire, one of the famous actors of that time.
So here it is, this district which was in a way a village…
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