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Montmartre
Montmartre Walking Tours
Montmartre was a small village covered with vineyards from Gallo-Roman times. Since the middle of the 19th century the “butte Montmartre” has been a place for walking and enjoyment. On the slopes were the taverns, eating-houses and the dance halls where the workers and the middle-class met on Sunday afternoons. Montmartre was the place to celebrate. This effervescent atmosphere in addition to the low cost of rents at that time attracted all the artists of Paris to Montmartre.
The Sacre-Coeur was completed in 1910 and was built in remembrance of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. It has a magnificent view across Paris.
Montmartre Cabaret at
"Au Lapin Agile"
A favorite spot for celebrities
An evening spent at “Au Lapin Agile” gives a flavor of Montmartre as it was at the turn of the century when it was a favorite of local artists and intellectuals. You sit at communal tables and join in the singing of “French chansons”if you wish of course. You enter and leave as you wish.
History
Just before the turn of the century, Frédé, that unforgettable figure in Montmartre, gave a definite artistic impetus to the cabaret.
For the first time, perhaps, the different arts were in harmony. Writers,
poets, musicians, comedians, painters, sculptors, -- all unknown at the
time -- were united, criticising, poking fun, even influencing each other.
The historic richness of the Lapin Agile was born in the evenings, around the guitar and cello of Père Frédé, when everyone played, recited, sang their music and joined together singing popular songs. Their common denominator : humour in friendship.These "unknowns" were called Picasso, Utrillo, Derain.
Many American and English people have also become fond of the atmosphere of the Lapin Agile. Charlie Chaplin spent several nights here, one evening playing his violin. Ernest Hemingway, Eleanor Roosevelt, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Mitchum, Dana Winters, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Lauren Bacall, and Henry Miller have all passed some time with us. Leontyne Price sang "Summertime" several times at the cabaret during the debut of Porgy and Bess in Paris. The great pianist Sviatoslav Richter was a regular at the Lapin Agile
Romantic Montmartre
Hotel Package
Villa Royale Romantic Package - Only 750€ per person
• 4 Nights in a 4 star hotel double room
• Champagne & Bubbles awaits you
• Private meet and greet by English speaking driver.
• Montmartre Walking Tour (4hrs)
• Restaurant Reservation Service
• Our local call number for help
Visit Montmartre!
Cost: from 26 €
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Montmartre Walking Tour
Duration: 3 hrs
Departures: 1h 45
Tuesday and Friday
Montmartre, first a sacred hill (roman temples and then the abbey), also the political hillside from Henri IV to the Commune, has preserved its cultural and artistic identity by welcoming the greatest painting movements of the 19th and 20th century: Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Futurism, Surrealism. A coach transfer from Paris Vision agency, then up to the top of the hill with the funicular. During the visit our guide-interpreter will restitute the atmosphere of these different periods related to evocative places such as the Place du Tertre, the Moulin de la Galette, the vineyards of Montmartre and the Sacré Coeur Basilica. the excursion ends in montmartre. funicular ticket included.
Want to experience an authentic dinner and cabaret in Montmartre
26 euro book
tour PM 
Paris et Montmartre
Duration: 3:30 hrs
Departures: 8:30am everday
This excursion will give you an insight into the history of Paris, with its major monuments and historical sites: Madeleine, Opera, Vendôme Square, Concorde, Arch of Triumph and Champs-Elysees, Invalides, Louvre, Notre-Dame.
The excursion ends with a walking tour of Montmartre: the Sacre Coeur, Place du Tertre and Moulin de la Galette.
Transfers by minivan
56 euro book
tour MT+
Private Twilight Montmartre Walking Tour
Duration: 2hrs/2hrs 30m
We pass the famous “Moulin Rouge” – renowned for
the “Can-Can” and Toulouse Lautrec on our way to take a
Coffee Break at the café where the very successful movie “Amélie”,
about a Parisian waitress, was filmed. The movie won several Césars
(French movie awards) and was nominated for a number of Oscars. The
movie is, for the most part, set in Montmartre.
Renoir, the great impressionist artist, lived in Montmartre and his
painting of the Sunday afternoon dance in the acacia-shaded courtyard
of the dance-hall “Moulin de la Galette” is one of his
happiest compositions. The windmill from which it gets its name is
still standing. Monet, Degas and Van Gogh all lived or worked on the “Butte”.
Then off to “Au Lapin Agile”, which actually began as a cabaret for hashish users, but became the meeting place of the fathers of Modern Art. Just before World War I many artists and writers such as Picassso, Modigliani, Utrillo, Derain and Apollinaire lived nearby and would meet here. The interior has not changed over the years and has a flavor of Montmartre as it was at the turn of the century when it was a favorite of local artists and ‘bohemians’. The walls are full of paintings by artists who frequented the Cabaret, and you still sit at communal tables and join in the singing of “French chansons” and enter and leave as you wish. A lot of “chansonniers” made their debut here as Georges Brassens and Claude Nougaro. In 1905, Picasso gave his famous painting "Au Lapin Agile" to the cabaret, wherein Picasso is represented as a harlequin and Frédé, one of the owners, plays the guitar. This painting belonged to the cabaret for years; until, in 1912, Frédé sold it for twenty dollars... In 1989, it was auctioned at Sotheby's for 41 million dollars!
We will pass the last vineyard of Montmartre on our way to La Basilique du Sacré-Cœur which was built between 1876 and 1910. The Revolutionary movement of the Paris Commune of 1871 and its merciless repression was the origin for the construction of the Basilica as well as the loss of French lives in the disastrous Franco-Prussian War and the capture of Paris by the Prussian in 1870. However it is a controversial building as many people still consider the Basilica as the symbol of the authority of the State over the inhabitants of the capital. The Basilica was also the site of the capture of French intelligence officer Gustave Bertrand by the Germans on January 5, 1944. The steps of the Basilique du Sacré-Coeur affords a spectacular and romantic view of Paris.
Finally, off to the main square of Montmartre, the Place de Tertres,
which is famous the world over for its outdoor cafés and artists,
and a reminder of the creative community of artists that lived and
worked here, such as Picasso, Utrillo, Derain, Braque, Modigliani.
We will finish off the tour by spending the evening in a traditional
restaurant right on the Place du Tertres where you will have dinner.
All food is made on the premises.
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