Walk Museum of Montmartre to Pigalle via Moulin-Rouge

Musée de Montmartre – Jardins Renoir
12 rue Cortot
75018 Paris
https://museedemontmartre.fr/

Access

• Metro – Line 2 (Anvers station then Montmartre funicular) – Line 12 (Lamarck-Caulaincourt and Abbesses stations)
• RER – Lines B and D (Gare du Nord-Magenta Station)
• Bus – 80 and 40 (Stop Saules-Cortot or Montcenis-Cortot)
• Funicular of Montmartre

Short description

The Montmartre Museum – Renoir Gardens is a French art museum located in Paris, in the 18th arrondissement. It is installed in a group of buildings that includes the Hotel Demarne and the House of Bel Air and surrounded by the “Renoir Gardens”.

Inaugurated in 1960, it has been refurbished since 2011 and gives rise to several annual temporary exhibitions.

The Museum was created in one of the oldest buildings of the Butte, built in the 17th century: the Maison du Bel Air.

This House of Bel Air was also the place of creation and work of many artists as Suzanne Valadon,  Maurice Utrillo, André Utter (painter, husband of Suzanne Valadon), Emile Bernard, the fauvists Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy, Demetrios Galanis, Francisque Poulbot, etc.  Auguste Renoir rented a studio there in 1876 and during his stay he painted major canvases such as The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, The Swing and Garden on Rue Cortot in Montmartre.

The permanent collections take you back to the history of the Butte Montmartre, the effervescence of its workshops, from the Bateau-Lavoir to the Cortot workshop, and the atmosphere of its famous cabarets, from the Lapin Agile to the Moulin Rouge. One room is dedicated to the French Cancan, another to shadow theater, the dreamlike décor that made the reputation of the Chat Noir cabaret. The artists settled there from 1870. The cafés and cabarets multiplied in the 1880s. One finds there the artistic bohemia of Montmartre specific

The Museum houses a unique collection of paintings, posters and drawings by Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, Kupka, Steinlen, Valadon, Utrillo, Pierre Dumont, Charles Genty. There are also illustrations, photographs and testimonials signed by artists.

The Montmartre Museum has reconstructed the studio where Suzanne Valadon, her son Maurice Utrillo and her partner André Utter lived.

La Maison rose
2 rue de l’Abreuvoir (A l’angle de la rue des Saules)
75018 Paris

Access

• Montmartre, 2 rue de l’Abreuvoir (A l’angle de la rue des Saules)
• Metro – Line 2 (Anvers station then Montmartre funicular) – Line 12 (Lamarck-Caulaincourt and Abbesses stations)
• RER – Lines B and D (Gare du Nord-Magenta Station)
• Bus – 80 and 40 (Stop Saules-Cortot or Montcenis-Cortot)
• Funicular of Montmartre

Short description

The Pink House is the little story of the Catalan Ramon Pichot, at n° 2 rue de l’Abreuvoir (at the corner of rue des Saules), on the Butte Montmartre. It is known because of the painting of Utrillo which represents it. Ramon Pichot bought this small house around 1905. He was also a painter and a friend of Dali, also a Catalan, and the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. He often received them in this house which served as his studio.

The story goes that Utrillo made the Pink House famous by painting it on one of his pictures. However, it was Élisée Maclet, a modest painter, but recognized at the time, as famous (or more so) than Utrillo who was his friend. He painted La Maison Rose and Montmartre well before him.

The Pink House is now a creative and welcoming neighborhood restaurant, La Maison Rose offers a short menu based on seasonal products. It is inspired by the French kitchen and the Italian cucina povera (modest Italian cuisine).

Clos de Montmartre  (Vignes de Montmartre)
Rue des Saules
75018 Paris

Access

• Metro – Line 12 (Lamarck-Caulaincourt station)
• Bus : n° 80 and 40
• Parking : Parking garage at 350 meters rue Custine.
• Cab : Lamarck station or on request.

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The vineyard of Montmartre, whose official name is the Clos-Montmartre, is a vineyard planted on the hillock Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.. The vineyard grows on the northern slope of the Montmartre hillock, along the rue Saint-Vincent and the rue des Saules.

Owner of the vineyard: City of Paris,
Manager: Comité des Fêtes du 18e arrondissement
Maintenance of the vineyard: Technical services of the City of Paris
Annual production: about 1000 numbered bottles

In the 12th century, vines were planted by the ladies of the abbey of Montmartre founded by Adelaide of Savoy. But the impoverishment of the abbey led the nuns to sell the vineyard plots. In the 16th century, the inhabitants of Montmartre, which was then located outside of Paris (until 1860), were mainly ploughmen and winegrowers. The vines were cultivated from the top of the hill to the surrounding plains.

But since Montmartre was annexed to Paris in 1860, the houses grew at the expense of the remaining vineyard. In 1930, it was planned to build buildings there. This was without counting on the mobilization of the inhabitants of the district who were opposed to these constructions.

The disappearance of the vines in Montmartre is complete in 1928. They were replanted five years later with 2,000 Gamay and Pinot Noir vines.

The first harvest festival in 1934, takes place on the second weekend of October. It was sponsored by Mistinguett and Fernandel, and took place in the presence of the President of the Republic Albert Lebrun. But there were no grapes yet, the vineyard was only 2 years old. So grapes were bought at Les Halles and bunches were hung with wire so that the sponsors could cut them.

Au Lapin Agile
22 rue des Saules
75018 Paris
https://au-lapin-agile.com/

Access

Au Lapin Agile
22 rue des Saules
75018 Paris
https://au-lapin-agile.com/

• Metro – Line 12 (Lamarck-Caulaincourt station)
• Bus : n° 80 and 40
• Parking : Parking garage at 350 meters rue Custine.
• Cab : Lamarck station or on request.

Short description

The Cabaret Lapin-Agile (Agile rabbit) has an international reputation. It is well known to most tourists who come to Montmartre. However, it is an ordinary little house, but it is also an “old fashioned” cabaret and has a whole history.

The little house with the sign of the “Lapin agile” is the former cabaret of the “Assassins”. In 1880, the owner entrusted the caricaturist André Gill, who was familiar with the place, with the creation of a sign: the cabaret then became known under the name “Au Lapin à Gill”, soon phonetically transformed into “Lapin Agile”.

Le cabaret Lapin-Agile aujourd’hui: toujours pas comme les autres.

Cimetière Saint Vincent
6 rue Lucien-Gaulard
75018 Paris

Access

• Metro: line 12 – Station Lamarck – Caulaincourt
• Bus: line 40, 80

Short description

The Saint-Vincent Cemetery at 6 rue Lucien-Gaulard (18th arrondissement), opened on January 5, 1831. It is one of the 3 cemeteries of the Butte Montmartre with the Cemetery of Calvaire (closed), next to the church of Saint-Pierre de Montmartre, and the cemetery of the North, commonly called “cemetery of Montmartre”. The latter is halfway up the Butte, on the west side.

The Saint-Vincent Cemetery is a small cemetary (900 graves) built on the slope which gives a nice perspective on the Dome of the Sacred Heart. The charm of its flowered alleys will seize you as soon as you enter.

You will discover among others some personalities buried in this cemetery. Among the most famous are Marcel Aymé, Marcel Carné or Maurice Utrillo.

Square Joël Le-Tac
6 Place Constantin Pecqueur
75018 Paris

Access

• The square is located in the middle of the place Constantin-Pecqueur.
• The site is accessible by 3, place Constantin-Pecqueur.
• Metro: It is served by line 12 – Station Lamarck – Caulaincourt.
• Bus: n° 80, 40
• Vélib Station at 74 m

Short description

The Joël Le-Tac Square and the mini park (green space) that surrounds it, are places made to rest on the route of your walk. It is planted with viburnum, aucuba, boxwood, yew, prunus pissardii, flowering apple trees and plane trees; there is also a potable water point. But there is something else to see in the middle of this mini-park and greenery:

• Fountain of the woods – and drinkable water
• Monument to Théophile Steinlen
• The Square Joël Le-Tac
• Claude Nougaro Square
• Monument to Eugène Carrière

House of Tzara
15 avenue Junot
75018 Paris
Architecte : Adolf Loos (1926)

Access

• Montmartre Hill-
• Metro – Line 2 (Anvers station then Montmartre funicular) – Line 12 (Lamarck-Caulaincourt and Abbesses stations)
• RER – Lines B and D (Gare du Nord-Magenta Station)
• Bus – 80 and 40 (Stop Saules-Cortot or Montcenis-Cortot)
• Funicular of Montmartre

Short description

In 1926, the dada poet Tristan Tzara had the Austrian architect Adolf Loos build a house that sums up his architectural approach: the essence of modern architecture is not in the beauty of the elements that make up a building, but in the beauty of pure forms, the relationships that the volumes have with each other. This can be seen in the contrast between the lightness of the white second floor, hollowed out of a rectangular box, and the first floor in rubble.

Just to the left, at n° 13, it is the hotel of the cartoonist Poulbot acquired once the success came.

Square Suzanne Buisson
7 bis, rue Girardon ou Rue Simon Demeure
75018 Paris

Access

• Metro – Lamarck-Caulaincourt (Line 12) and Abbesses (Line 2)
• Bus – 30, 40, 54 , 80

Short description

The Suzanne-Buisson Square is a green space in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. on the Montmartre Hill. It is named after the politician and resistance fighter Suzanne Buisson (1883-1944), who was deported and died in Auschwitz.

She joined Libération-Sud, a clandestine resistance movement in the Lyon region. In 1943, she became a liaison between the occupied and free zones for the clandestine Socialist Party and for relations with the French Communist Party.

She was arrested by the Germans on April 1, 1944 in Lyon.

Château des Brouillards
Allée des Brouillards
75018 Paris

Access

Château des Brouillards
Allée des Brouillards
75018 Paris

• This street is located on the northern slope of the Montmartre hill; it starts at place Dalida and ends at 4, place Casadesus.
• It is served by line 12 at the Lamarck – Caulaincourt station and by the RATP bus line 40 at the Abreuvoir – Girardon stop.

Short description

The Allée des Brouillards, its castle and the Casadesus family of musicians. An indissociable whole in this area of Montmartre Hill.

Place Casadesus is an extension of the Allée des Brouillards since 1995. The Casadesus family bought the Château des Brouillards at the end of 1920.

The Château des Brouillards was built before 1789. Its different owners have restored it several times, artists have occupied it more or less legally. It was only in 1920 that Victor Perrot (1865-1963) turned a ruin into the present manor.

Bust of Singer Dalida
Dalida Square
75018 Paris

Access

• Metro – Line 2 (Anvers station then Montmartre funicular) – Line 12 (Lamarck-Caulaincourt and Abbesses stations)
• RER – Lines B and D (Gare du Nord-Magenta Station)
• Bus – 80 and 40 (Stop Saules-Cortot or Montcenis-Cortot)
• Funicular of Montmartre

Short description

The Dalida bust and Square are a tribute to the singer who lived a few meters from there (11B Rue d’Orchampt, 75018 Paris) between 1962 and 1987. She became a prominent figure in Montmartre, and her memory lives on in the collective memory of the inhabitants who recall her memory with emotion. Dalida loved the area of the Montmartre hillock. Another tribute to Dalida is the 1996 vintage of the Clos Montmartre wine: it bears her name.

Dalida is buried a few hundred meters away, in the Cemetery of Montmartre.

Rue de l’Abreuvoir
75018 Paris

Access

Rue de l’Abreuvoir
75018 Paris

• Montmartre Hill
• Metro – Line 2 (Anvers station then Montmartre funicular) – Line 12 (Lamarck-Caulaincourt and Abbesses stations)
• RER – Lines B and D (Gare du Nord-Magenta Station)
• Bus – 80 and 40 (Stop Saules-Cortot or Montcenis-Cortot)
• Funicular of Montmartre

Short description

The Abreuvoir street is located on the Butte Montmartre in Paris, in the Grandes-arrières district of the 18th arrondissement. It has a discreet country charm. It is probably the most photographed street in Montmartre, for several reasons, from the Maison Rose located at number 2 to the perspective on the Sacré Coeur from the Allée des Brouillards and the Place Dalida.

Le Moulin de la Galette (Restaurant)
83 rue Lepic
75018 Paris (Montmartre)

Le Moulin de la Galette (“Le Blute-fin”)
75-77 rue Lepic
75018 Paris

These 2 streets are neighbors

Access

Le Moulin de la Galette (Restaurant)
83 rue Lepic
75018 Paris (Montmartre)

Le Moulin de la Galette (“Le Blute-fin”)
75-77 rue Lepic
75018 Paris

These 2 streets are neighbors on Montmartre Hill

• Metro – Lamarck-Caulaincourt (Line 12) and Abbesses (Line 2)
• Bus – 30, 40, 54 , 80

Short description

The Moulin-de-la-Galette is in fact a duo of mills. The history of the Moulin-de-la-Galette is that of 2 mills: the mill called “Le Blute-fin” and the other “Le_Radet”, both belonging to the Debray family, millers and … manufacturers of galettes sold in their famous and very popular ball of the Butte Montmartre along the 19th century!

The “Blute-fin” mill is today the only remaining windmill on the Butte Montmartre, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, and still in working order.

To know more, a lot more on the Moulin-de-la-Galette in English or in French.

Maison de Dalida à Montmartre
11 bis rue d’Orchamps
75018 Paris

Access

• Metro – Lamarck-Caulaincourt (Line 12) and Abbesses (Line 2)
• Bus – 30, 40, 54 , 80

Short description

Dalida’s house is located at 11 bis rue d’Orchamps, on the Butte Montmartre, in Paris. Peaceful, this street reminds of the countryside and freedom. What Dalida was trying to find in the middle of Paris. In a television interview in 1975, she said “I have always loved Montmartre, I found it so peaceful and quiet that I immediately bought this house when I saw it,” she said, before specifying that the neighborhood evokes for her the countryside in the heart of Paris.

The house is already an attraction during the singer’s lifetime. Some fans spent hours watching for her exits.  “I can’t stand it anymore. I’m sick, I want to go to the doctor and I have to put on makeup, I have to poison myself because I know they’ll be there. I can’t take it anymore. I want to be still.” But elle n’était pas toujours excédée par ce manque de liberté. Elle savait aussi être aimable avec eux et même les inviter chez elle.

She also loved her neighborhood. Dalida had her habits at the Moulin de la Galette, 50 m from her home, where she always sat by the window at table number three.

Bateau-Lavoir
13 de la place Émile-Goudeau
75018 Paris

Access

• Subway: The place Émile-Goudeau is accessible by the metro line 12 at the Abbesses station
• Bus: The RATP bus line 40 is the only one to circulate on the Montmartre hill. Stop Durantin-Burq or Abbesses also

Short description

This wooden building, probably named as such out of derision, opened on the first floor onto the square and led three floors down to rue Garreau. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was a poorly heated refuge that served as improvised workshops for a “band of oddballs” who occupied it, often of foreign origin and penniless. It was obviously the crucible of Modern Art.

After the Impressionists who had settled there a few years earlier, its occupants were to challenge the standards of classical painting. Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Mac Orlan, Modigliani, Van Dongen, Juan Gris… When he arrived at the Bateau Lavoir, Pablo Picasso revolutionized painting with his famous cubist picture, painted in 1907: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

Classified by André Malraux in 1969, the Bateau-Lavoir was destroyed by fire in 1970. Rebuilt in concrete in 1978, it was reorganized into 25 studios for young artists who work and create during the day, without being housed there.

Le mur des je t’aime
Square Jehan Rictus
75018 Paris (Montmartre)

Access

• Subway – Abbesses
• Bus – 30, 54

Short description

The “I love you wall” is a work imagined by Frédéric Baron and Claire Kito. It has become an unavoidable landmark for lovers from all over the world who meet in Paris, the capital of romance.
The wall, built on a surface of 40 m², in the Square Jehan Rictus, in Montmartre in Paris, is composed of 612 tiles in enamelled lava. On these tiles are calligraphed 311 “I love you” in 250 common languages, but also in rare or forgotten dialects like Navajo, Inuit, Bambara or Esperanto.

Access

• Metro – Abbesses
• Bus – 30, 54
• Funicular of Montmartre.

Short description

The Abbesses Square (Place des Abbesses) is located at the foot of the Montmartre hill, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, in the Clignancourt district. This charming square is also a landmark of the Parisian metro: it is the deepest station in Paris and its entrance is topped by one of the rare Art nouveau Guimard aedicule (canopy) still “in activity”. Others can be seen in museum in several towns in the world.

La station Abbesses (la plus profonde de Paris), sur la ligne 12 comporte une seule entrée.

Église Saint-Jean de Montmartre
19 et 21 Rue des Abbesses rue des Abbesses
75018 Paris

Tel: 01 46 06 43 96
Architecture : Art Nouveau
Architecte: Anatole de Baudot

Access

• Metro : Abbesses
• Ce site est desservi par la station de métro Abbesses

Short description

The Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre church , also called église Saint-Jean l’Évangéliste is a Catholic parish church. It is at the foot of the Butte Montmartre, located at 19, rue des Abbesses, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris.

His name St. John the Evangelist (Saint-Jean l’Évangéliste) comes from John, a first century Jew who became a Christian, a disciple of Jesus and also the brother of James the Greater. Christian tradition attributes the writing of the Gospel of John to the apostle John. The apostle John is credited with many miracles, especially that of the poison. John, summoned to drink a cup of poison, is not at all bothered by it, while the two tasters are struck down in a few seconds. They were then resurrected by the saint.

The Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre church was classified as a historical heritage site by order of September 9, 2014.

Théâtre des Abbesses
31 rue des Abbesses
75018 Paris

Architectes Charles Vandenhove, Jacques Sequaris et Prudent de Wispelaere, 1992

Access

• Metro : line 12 (Station Abbesses) – line 2 and line 12 : (Station Pigalle)
• Bus : 30, 54, 67 (Montmartrobus stop) and 50, 80, 95
• Velib : Station n°18004 – Place des Abbesses
• Parking Montmartre Garage – underground parking, 5 rue Dancourt Paris 18

Short description

The architect Charles Vandenhove wanted to respect the “neo-classical architecture” of the district, by “making current” the pediments, the capitals, the columns, the curved zinc roofs, by using stone and clear concrete colored in the mass.

Very close to Pigalle, this Theater of contemporary dance, world music, classical music is the 2nd theater of the City. Its programming is directly linked to that of the Théâtre de la Ville: the successful shows of young choreographers, companies, authors or directors can allow them to be programmed the following year on the stage of the Théâtre de la Ville, place du Châtelet, for a revival or a new creation. On average, the Théâtre des Abbesses puts on about a hundred performances a year.

Cimetière de Montmartre
20 avenue Rachel
75018 Paris
Tel. +33 (0) 1 53 42 36 30

cimetiere.montmartre@paris.fr
https://www.paris.fr/

Access

• Metro – Place de Clichy Station – Lines 2 and 13
• Bus – 30, 31, 54, 56, 80, 85, 95
• Velib station at 180 m

Short description

The Montmartre cemetery, officially the cemetery of the North, opened in 1825. It is the third largest necropolis in Paris, after Père Lachaise and Montparnasse. Its surface area is 11 hectares.

Nestled on the side of the Butte Montmartre, it offers a 20 m difference in level and a remarkable view of the capital. 21,500 graves are gathered there in the shade of almost 800 trees – 38 different species, mainly maples, to which are added a few chestnut trees, lime trees and thuyas.

They are numerous over the almost 200 years that this cemetery exists. Some, famous in their time are now forgotten. You will find a no-exhaustive list of them in the detailed description. Here is a short list with the adresses of the tombs (by street) :

• tombe of Edgar Degas – Av. de Montebello,
• tombe of Michel Berger et France Gall – Av. de la Croix,
• tomb of Stendhal – 8 Rue Camille Tahan,
• tombe André-Marie Ampère – 8 Rue Camille Tahan,
• tombe de Louise Weber, dite La Goulue – 20 Av. Rachel, 75018 Paris
• Cénotaphe d’Émile Zola – 14 Av. Dubuisson,
• tombe de Berlioz – Av. Cordier, (Ave Hector Berlioz),
• tombe of François Truffaut – 22 Rue Joseph de Maistre,
• tombe d’Alexandre Dumas fils – Av. de Montebello,

Cimetière de Montmartre
Tombe de Dalida (18^e division)
20 Avenue Rachel
75018 Paris

Access

• Metro: Abbesses or Lamarck Caulaincourt stations (Line 12)
• Bus: n°40, n° 80

Short description

Dalida‘s grave is one of the most visited in the cemetery of Montmartre, 35 years after her death. It is indeed on May 3, 1987 that she gave herself death in her house of the Bute Montmartre, 11 bis rue d’Orchampt, located at 250 m in direction of the Place du Tertre. Her name of singer is Dalida and that of her civil status Iolanda Christina Gigliotti.

Moulin Rouge
82 Boulevard de Clichy
75018 Paris

Access

• Metro: line 2 (Blanche station)
• Bus: 30 / 54 / 68 / 74
• Parking: Clichy-Montmartre – 12 Rue Forest, 75018 Paris – Rédélé Parking – 11 Rue Forest, 75018 Paris

Short description

Moulin-Rouge Show is a Parisian cabaret founded in 1889 by Joseph Oller and Charles Zidler, who already owned the cabaret Olympia. The Moulin Rouge celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1989.
Located on the boulevard de Clichy, some 250 m from the Place Pigalle in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, at the foot of the Montmartre hill, its style and name have been imitated and borrowed by other cabarets around the world. Its dance symbol is the French Cancan.

Villa-des-Platanes
58 boulevard de Clichy
75018 Paris

Cité-du-Midi
48 boulevard de Clichy
75018 Paris

Access

• The distance between the Villa-des-Platanes and the Cité-du-Midi is about 50 m.
• Metro : Blanche station (line 2) and Pigalle station (lines 2 and 12)
• Bus 40, 54, N02

Short description

Villa-des-Platanes and Cité-du-Midi : two spaces not to be missed on the way from Place Blanche to Place Pigalle, two green and original cul-de-sacs for the neighborhood that overlook Boulevard de Clichy:

• at 58, La Villa-des-Platanes, an upscale 19th century building complex and green space
• and 50 m further on, at 48, La Cité-du-Midi, a green corner with a country charm

These two totally different and opposed spaces meet in their originality in this otherwise famous tourist district of Pigalle.

Place Pigalle (Square)
Pigalle Quarter
Place du Quartier Saint Georges
75009 Paris

Access

• Metro: lines 2 and 12 – Pigalle or Anvers station (Equal distance from La Cigale)
• By bus : get off at Rochechouart – Martyrs – Lines 30, 54, 67
• Vélib’ : terminal in front of la Cigale. There is a bicycle path all along the boulevard Rochechouart

Short description

The Pigalle Quarter is the name of a district of Paris, located around the Pigalle square, it includes the streets located on both sides of the boulevards of Clichy and Marguerite-de-Rochechouart, and extends on the 9th and 18th districts. The square is named after the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785).

The district is renowned for being a tourist mecca (it is located at the foot of the Montmartre hill). Even if the time when mobsters, policemen and clients met in Pigalle seems long gone, there are still some sex shops and specialized bars. However, the nightclubs, the famous cabarets, the multicolored and neon signs that give the image of a hot district are for many today a decor for tourists.