Montparnasse

[ mawn-par-nas ]

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noun

a district in S Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés and the artists and writers who have frequented and lived in the area.

Montparnasse

/ mɔ̃parnas /

a district of S Paris, on the left bank of the Seine: noted for its cafés, frequented by artists, writers, and students

And those memorable dinners in the old studio back of the Gare Montparnasse!

You will see a family of rich bourgeois enter, just in from the country, for the Montparnasse station is opposite.

Monsieur Dorinet, are you not tired of seeing La Montparnasse in that everlasting old black gown?

That night there was great excitement in the Montparnasse quarter.

There's a little hotel I know in the Boulevard Montparnasse.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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