Tagged With "Montmartre"

Thank you for sharing your memories, and wakening some of my own. It's a trite line, I know, but despite all that changes, "we'll always have Paris." In fact, maybe that's 'because' and not 'despite.'

Some great memories. My wife and I head there in 3 weeks for the first time in over 25 years. We are so looking forward to it. Thank you.

It's a great piece, PortMoresby! It made me feel nostalgic for a city I never knew back then. Beautifully illustrated.

Great post! Love the photos and sense of memory....

Great Blog PortMoresby! You captured how Paris has stayed that magical place and brought back memories for me of great times.

Poor Mme Derval, who seems not to have had a name.

I noticed that...but for me, the hardest moment of the afternoon was the sense of relentless mortality I felt at the grave of Louise Weber, "La Goulue." To look at the severe and confining stone box, and think at the same time of the image we carry of her...

Speaking of la Goulue, you know the neighborhood, PHeymont. She could have just about fallen off the stage at the Moulin Rouge into that box. The famous nightclub is at the bottom of Rue Lepic, mentioned in a recent blog, and some of my "best friends" were can-can dancers. Before someone asks, not la Goulue. And don't feel bad, P., she's enjoying the rest.

She died nearby, as well. She returned to Montmartre in 1928, a year before her death, and eked out a living selling matches and peanuts on a corner near the Moulin Rouge.

Hmm, that sounds pretty good, ending my days in the old neighborhood, selling peanuts to supplement my Social Security. What I don't sell, I can eat. I can think of worse ways.

PortMoresby spends a week in Paris, walking and reflecting on her first time there, 6 months working 6 days a week and living in a room in Montmartre.

Jonathan L walks halfway across Paris and takes a tour of The Louvre

Terrific! Great photos and great advice on how to tackle one of the world's most extensive art collections.

I've never set out to document Paris at night, never had a conscious plan to record a particular area or its life. These are just selections from several visits, held together only by the late hour or by something that pleased me.

For reasons I can’t completely explain, the great cemeteries of Paris are among the city’s major tourist attractions. There is the amazing statuary to be seen, yes. There are the graves of the rich and famous, certainly....

There are hundreds of churches in Paris, many even sharing names, but my favorite of the moment is Saint-Jean de Montmartre, which must be among the most unusual in the city.

Montmartre has long been home to budding artists, whose work you can admire and purchase on its streets.

Wonderful place and yes, the artists are very talented and I bought a few of the paintings as well. Visited a couple times.