hotel paris Montparnasse, Hotels in the centre of Paris Montparnasse

Around World War I, writers, poets and artists of the avant-garde abandoned Montmartre and moved to Montparnasse, shifting the core of Paris'S artistic and cultural life to the area around Boulevard du Montparnasse.Chagall, Modigliani, Leger, Soutine, Miro, Kandinsky, Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Henry Miller and Cocteau as well as political exiles such as Lenin and Trotsky all used to hang out here at various times, talking endlessly in the cafés and restaurants for which the quarter is still famous (Le Dôme, La Coupole...).* Montpamasse remained an exceptionally creative center until the mid-1930s. Today, especially since the construction of the new Gare Montparnasse and of many fashionable cafés and cinemas, very little remains of what used to be the bohemian past.