Events near Montparnasse
- 🏛️“Robert Capa: War Photographer”
- 🏛️Photo exhibition: Revealing the evolution of Paris's landscapes
Monuments & viewpoints
The Kiss
Église Saint-Dominique
Lion of Belfort
Hommage à Arago
Église Saint-Joseph-de-Cluny
Chapelle de la Visitation
Monument à Francis Garnier
église de la Très-Sainte-Trinité-et-de-l'Enfant-Jésus de Paris
The Kiss (in Romanian: Sărutul /səˈrutul/) is a sculpture by Romanian Modernist sculptor Constantin Brâncuși. It is an early example of his proto-cubist style of non-literal representation. This sculpture is considered the first modern sculpture of the twentieth century. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Saint-Dominique Church is a Roman Catholic church located at 20 rue de la Tomb-Issoire in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. It was constructed between 1913 and 1921 in the Romano-Byzantine architectural style, mixed with Art Deco, popular in the period. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Museums & galleries
- 🖼️Galerie Camera Obscura
Hôtel Follot
Musée de la Libération de Paris – musée du Général-Leclerc – musée Jean-Moulin- 🏛️“Robert Capa: War Photographer”
Catacombs of Paris- 🏛️Photo exhibition: Revealing the evolution of Paris's landscapes
The Catacombs of Paris (French: Catacombes de Paris, ) are underground ossuaries in Paris, France, which hold the remains of more than six million people. Built to consolidate Paris's ancient stone quarries, they extend south from the Barrière d'Enfer ("Gate of Hell") former city gate. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Restaurants in Montparnasse
- 🍽️Icosium
- 🍽️Binchotan
- 🍽️Chào Sapa
- 🍽️Il Forno di Napoli
- 🍽️Il Barone
- 🍽️Charles Quint
- 🍽️Le Diamant Rose
- 🍽️La Créole
Closerie des Lilas- 🍽️Cantine
The Closerie des Lilas (French pronunciation: [klozʁi de lila]) is a famous Parisian restaurant (or brasserie) located on the Boulevard du Montparnasse in the 6th arrondissement of Paris. It was opened in 1847 by François Bullier and was a simple brasserie at the beginning. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Bars in Montparnasse
- 🍸My Baar
- 🍸Le Lock Groove
- 🍸Café Oz
- 🍸Backstage
- 🍸Murphy
- 🍸Mez Beer
- 🍸Le Tonnerre
Cafés in Montparnasse
- ☕8lithèque
- ☕La Bête Noire
- ☕Le Cristal
- ☕Coffee Club
- ☕Les Facultés
- ☕Cobalt
- ☕Maine Café
Pâtisseries in Montparnasse
- 🧁Maison M'seddi
- 🧁Boulangerie Méli-Mélo
- 🧁Thevenin
- 🧁Comptoir du Chocolat
- 🧁La Boulangerie du Dôme
- 🧁Les frères Blavette
- 🧁Paris & Co
Bookshops
- 📚La Petite Lumière
- 📚Desmos
- 📚À l'Ouest
Cinemas, theatres & live music
- 🎭Atelier du Verbe
- 🎭La Comédie Italienne
Théâtre Montparnasse
Théâtre Rive Gauche
Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse
Bobino
The Théâtre Montparnasse (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ mɔ̃paʁnas]) is a theatre at 31, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
The Théâtre Rive Gauche (French pronunciation: [teɑtʁ ʁiv ɡoʃ]) is a theatre in Paris in France located at 6, rue de la Gaîté in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Wikipedia · CC BY-SA
Markets & delis
- 🥘Di Gio
- 🥘À la Mère de Famille
- 🥘Macaronis
- 🥘La Maison de la Pâte
- 🥘Epire
- 🥘La capanna
Parks & gardens
square Georges-Lamarque
square Claude-Nicolas-Ledoux
square de l'Abbé-Migne
Jardin public de l'Observatoire de Paris
Where the street names come from
- villa Adrienne Simon — Name given by the neighbouring owners.
- rue Auguste Mie — Auguste Mie, printer, provided his presses in July 1830 to publish the journalists' protest against the royal ordinances.
- rue Boissonade — Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie (1774-1857), French Hellenist and scholar. Professor at the Collège de France.
- rue Boulard — Mr. Boulard, philanthropist, made bequests to the Assistance publique.
- place Camille Jullian — Camille Jullian (1859-1933), French historian.
- rue Campagne Première — General Taponnier, former owner of the surrounding land, gave the street this name in memory of the first campaign he had fought, at Wissembourg.
- rue Cassini — Jean Dominique Cassini (1625-1712), French astronomer of Italian origin, founder of the Observatory.
- impasse Cels — Jacques Martin Cels (1743-1806), horticulturist, grandfather of the former owner of the land on which the street was laid out; near rue Cels.
- rue Cels — Jacques Martin Cels (1743-1806), horticulturist, grandfather of the former owner of the land on which the street was laid out.
- rue Charles Divry — Charles Divry, mayor of the 14th arrondissement.
- esplanade Charles-Axel Guillaumot — Charles-Axel Guillaumot (Stockholm, 1730-Paris, 1807), architect, First Inspector of the Quarries of Paris, administrator of the Gobelins manufactory.
- place Constantin Brancusi — Constantin Brancusi (Pestisani, 1876-Paris, 1957), French sculptor of Romanian origin.
- passage d'Enfer — In the vicinity of the former boulevard d'Enfer, now the boulevard Raspail.
- rue Daguerre — Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787-1851), Frenchman, inventor of the daguerreotype.
- rue Danville — Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon Danville (1697-1782), geographer; near the Observatory.
- rue Dareau — Mr Dareau, mayor of Montrouge from 1852 to 1858; name given during his lifetime, at the wish of the inhabitants of the commune.
- rue de Chevreuse — Formerly the beginning of the main road to Chevreuse.
- rue de Grancey — Mandat de Grancey, colonel of the Côte d'Or mobile guard, killed at the Battle of Champigny on 2 December 1870.
- place de l'Île de Sein — Tribute to the 133 men making up the male population of the île de Sein who left the island in June 1940 to go to England and were the first to rally to General de Gaulle following his appeal of 18 June 1940.
- avenue de l'Observatoire — Leads to the Observatory.
- impasse de la Gaîté — Near the rue de la Gaîté; a street near the former city gate, once lined with various dance halls, open-air cafés, theatres and the like, some of which still survive.
- rue de la Gaîté — A street near the former city gate, once lined with various dance halls, open-air cafés, theatres and the like, some of which still survive.
- passage de la Tour de Vanves — Led to the mill of la Tour de Vanves.
- rue de Perceval — Laid out on land belonging to Mr Caussin de Perceval, orientalist.
- square Delambre — Near the rue Delambre.
- avenue Denfert-Rochereau — Pierre Marie Philippe Aristide Denfert-Rochereau (1823-1878), colonel of engineers, defender of Belfort.
- place Denfert-Rochereau — Pierre Marie Philippe Aristide Denfert-Rochereau (1823-1878), colonel of engineers, defender of Belfort.
- rue Deparcieux — Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768), mathematician; near the Observatory.
- rue des Chartreux — Opened on the site of the former convent of the Carthusians.
- avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy — Henri Tanguy, known as "Rol-tanguy", (Morlaix, 1908-Paris, 2002), Resistance fighter. In 1944 he was appointed colonel and regional head of the FFI for the Paris region. On 19 August 1944 he led the uprising of the citizens of Paris from his command post, which had been moved to the catacombs beneath the lion on place Denfert-Rochereau. He received the surrender of Von Choltitz on 25 August 194…
- rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques — The main street of the faubourg that grew up beyond the porte Saint-Jacques; one of the oldest streets in Paris.
- avenue du Maine — Near the château du Maine, a former hunting lodge that the Duke of Maine had built at the far end of his hunting grounds at Sceaux, in the direction of Paris.
- rue du Maine — Near the avenue du Maine.
- boulevard Edgar Quinet — Edgar Quinet (1803-1875), French writer and representative of the people.
- rue Émile Dubois — Jules Emile Dubois (1853-1904), doctor, municipal councillor of the 14th arrondissement and deputy for the Seine.
- rue Émile Richard — Emile Richard (1843-1890), politician, president of the Municipal Council.
- rue Ernest Cresson — Guillaume Ernest Cresson (1824-1902), lawyer and politician, prefect of police.
- rue Eugène Pelletan — Pierre Clément Eugène Pelletan (1813-1884), politician and publicist, member of the Government of National Defence.
- place Ferdinand Brunot — Ferdinand Brunot (1860-1938), writer, member of the Institut, mayor of the 14th arrondissement from 1910 to 1919.
- passage Fermat — Near the rue Fermat.
- rue Fermat — Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665), French mathematician; near the Observatory.
- rue Froidevaux — François Xavier Eugène Froidevaux (1827-1882), lieutenant-colonel of the fire brigade, who died in the line of duty in a fire; near the Montparnasse cemetery where he was buried.
- rue Gassendi — Pierre Gassend, known as Gassendi (1592-1655), philosopher.
- avenue Georges Bernanos — Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), writer.
- allée Georges Besse — Georges, Noël Besse (Clermont-Ferrant, 1927-Paris, 1986), industrialist, a leading figure of the nuclear industry, chairman of CIT-Alcatel, Eurodif and Cogéma. He turned round companies in difficulty (Péchiney-Ugine-Kuhlmann, Renault). He was murdered on 17 November 1986 in front of no. 16 boulevard Edgar Quinet as he was returning to his home at no. 12 on the same boulevard.
- place Gilbert Privat — Gilbert Privat (Toulouse, 1892-Soulac-sur-Mer, 1969), painter and sculptor. (Grand Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1921). Sculptor of numerous war memorials and bas-reliefs. Awarded the Médaille militaire in the 14-18 war.
- rue Huygens — Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch mathematician and astronomer.
- rue Jean Minjoz — Jean Minjoz (Montmélian, 1904-Besançon, 1987). Lawyer, mayor of Besançon, minister and deputy, a leading Resistance member; he was behind a bill for the free use of the livret A.
- rue Jean Zay — Jean Zay (Orléans, 1904-Molles, 1944), French politician.
- rue Jean-Claude Arnould — Jean-Claude Arnould (1792-1866), inventor of a radial articulated train system for broad gauge, which made possible the construction of the former Sceaux line in 1845.
- rue Joseph Bara — Joseph Bara, a drummer aged 13, killed by the Vendeans in 1793.
- rue Jules Guesde — Jules Guesde (1845-1922), French deputy.
- rue Lalande — Joseph Jérôme le François de Lalande (1732-1807), French astronomer; in the vicinity of the Observatoire.
- rue Larochelle — Henri Julien Boulanger, known as Larochelle (1827-1884), actor and theatre director; in the vicinity of the théâtre de Montparnasse, of which he was director from 1853 to 1866.
- rue Le Verrier — Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (1811-1877), French astronomer; in the vicinity of the Observatoire.
- impasse Lebouis — Near the rue Lebouis. Name of a landowner.
- rue Lebouis — Name of a landowner.
- rue Leclerc — Name of a landowner.
- rue Léopold Robert — Léopold Louis Robert (1794-1835), painter.
- Les Portiques d'Orléans — Near the former avenue d'Orléans.
- rue Liancourt — Duke François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld Liancourt (1747-1827), philanthropist and politician, had founded an arts and crafts school at Liancourt; near the La Rochefoucauld almshouse.
- impasse Louvat — Mr Louvat, landowner.
- villa Louvat — Mr Louvat, landowner.
- rue Maison Dieu — Former convent.
- rue Messier — Charles Messier (1731-1817), astronomer; near the Observatoire.
- cité Nicolas Poussin — Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), French painter.
- allée Nina Simone — Eunice Kathleen Waymon, known by her stage name "Nina Simone" (Tryon (North Carolina), 1933-Carry-le-Rouet (Bouches du Rhône), 2003), American singer, pianist and composer.
- place Pablo Picasso — Pablo Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881-Mougins, 1973), Spanish painter, draughtsman, engraver, sculptor, ceramicist and writer.
- rue Paul Séjourné — Paul Séjourné (1851-1939), inspector general of Ponts et Chaussées, member of the Institut; lived on this street for a long time.
- allée Rodenbach — Georges Rodenbach (1855-1898), Belgian poet and man of letters.
- rue Roger — Mr. Roger, property owner.
- rue Saillard — Baron Saillard (1824-1870), commander of the 1st battalion of the garde mobile of the Seine during the war of 1870-1871, mortally wounded at Epinay-sur-Seine.
- boulevard Saint-Jacques — Near the rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques.
- place Saint-Jacques — The rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques ends here.
- villa Saint-Jacques — Near the boulevard Saint-Jacques.
- rue Sivel — Henri Théodore Sivel (1834-1875), French sailor and aeronaut, who died, along with Crocé-Spinelli, during the ascent of the "Zénith".
- passage Tenaille — Mr Tenaille, property owner.
- rue Vandamme — Dominique René Vandamme (1770-1830), comte d'Unébourg, major general.
- allée Verhaeren — Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916), Belgian poet.
- rue Victor Considérant — Prosper Victor Considérant (1808-1893), French economist, representative of the people, head of the phalansterian school.
- rue Victor Schoelcher — Victor Schoelcher (1804-1893), French politician. He helped secure the adoption on 27 April 1848 of the decree abolishing slavery in the colonies.
Source: City of Paris, official street names (ODbL).
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