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Rita Crane Photography: Paris / Montmartre / Sacre Coeur / urban landscape / architecture / View of Sacre Coeur & Montmartre on a Winter Day, Paris

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Montmartre is the highest hill in Paris, and a village atmosphere still pervades these ancient streets. There's a great description of it in Wikipedia if you like history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montmartre.

 

It was incorporated into the city of Paris in the 1800's and became legendary because of the modern artists who lived here in the 1920's, such as Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Gen Paul, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain, Suzanne Valadon, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Maurice Utrillo, Toulouse-Lautrec, Théophile Steinlen. Those artists gave shape and color to our world in a way that had never been seen before, and I salute them!

 

You can learn more about this "little village in a city" here: www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=montmartre&btnG=Goo...

 

Et pour mes amis Flickr francais, voici un peut d'histoire pour vous, en francais ...

And here is some history of the Sacre Coeur for my French speaking Flickr friends:

 

www.histoire-en-ligne.com/spip.php?article452 &artsuite=5

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