Even if over a century has passed since its heyday Bohemian Paris still has a magnetic attraction on today’s visitors. Many artists of the late 18th century chose Paris and in particular the neighborhood of Montmartre to live their lives in an original and non-conformist manner. You can still get a taste of bohemia walking along the narrow streets around the Basilica of the Sacre Coeur. If you want to spend a holiday in Paris and enjoy the splendid air of those years just reserve an accommodation Paris
Genius and unruliness were the contrasting urges of artists who often lived in the cramped apartments of Montmartre and were inspired by the odors of the city, the famous locations and a vagabondish lifestyle that gave birth to art which has survived over the years. Artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Modigliani chose Montmartre to set up shop and follow their creative instincts.
Writers and painters would meet up at the Chat Noir, a very fashionable cafe-cabarat at the time that survives today thanks to the tourist trade and souvenir hunters.
Many young people of the time would go to the « Moulin de la Galette », a restaurant that still exists at the bottom of the Montmartre hillside where they would have their portraits painted. Renoir captured a typical moment inside the restaurant that rendered it famous. Speaking of bohemian Paris it would be a crime not to mention the Moulin Rouge, the club where bohemians once danced the Can Can, that took up the habit of launderers of the city to show off their skirts. The famous neighborhood with the red mill that moves is still located on the Boulevard de Clichy.
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