(Starting point: Metro Station "Blanche")
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This place owes its name to the clouds of plaster emitted by the quarry’s carriages.
3 min
André Breton, Pope of Surrealists, would preside over their meetings here.
2 min
Montmartre local Jacques Prévert wrote the dialogue of the legendary Port of Shadows.
3 min
The Count of the Escalopier created an exotic garden extremely curious for its time.
2 min
This small movie theater triggered many a scandal at the end of the 20s.
2 min
The heroic owner of the Blute-Fin windmill was martyred by the Cosacks.
3 min
An avant-garde play triggered a memorable riot here in 1917.
2 min
This is where Céline wrote his most famous novel, Journey to the End of the Night.
3 min
This unusual statue, an homage to Marcel Aymé, is the work of actor Jean Marais.
2 min
Around 1900, poor Parisians were driven out of the posh Haussmannian neighborhoods.
3 min
This mysterious rock is the last trace of the disappeared “undergrowth”.
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Montmartre also provides a small oasis of British ambiance.
1 min
Poet and founder of the Dada movement Tristan Tzara lived in this avant-garde house.
2 min
Cartoonist Poulbot was a legendary philanthropist for the Titis on the hill.
2 min
Suzanne Valadon would lock Utrillo in his apartment to detox him from alcohol.
1 min
This perspective appears on a once-controversial painting by Van Gogh.
1 min
Here lived expressionnist painter Gen Paul, an advocate for the « louchébem” dialect.
1 min
Paris’ first bishop met a tragic and unusual end.
3 min
Here lived a writer with a tortured soul, and a crime genius - Fantômas himself!
4 min
Dalida’s bronze bust is the object of a pagan rite involving a bit of superstition.
2 min
This park was home to the Moulin Radet, now the sign of the Moulin de la Galette.
1 min
The Maison Rose hosted a meeting with a tragic outcome.
3 min
Doctor Blanche, who pioneered a new style of psychotherapy, treated many artists.
2 min
The museum pays tribute to the self-proclaimed "Emperor of Montmartre".
2 min
Henri the IVth and Montmartre shared a long history and a few secrets.
4 min
The house located at the highest point in Paris stands in Montmartre.
1 min
In 1910, Paris was paralyzed for 35 days following the worst flood in its history.
2 minDaydreamers and lovers of the bizarre, discover a wacky and eclectic Montmartre, peppered with weird discoveries.
On the way, you’ll run into a witch, alligators, a guy who can walk through walls, a gothic Count who loves bananas, a bloody windmill, two famous “walking” heads, and the scary Fantômas!
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