Montparnasse

American  

[mawn-par-nas] / mɔ̃ parˈnas /

noun

1. 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.

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Montparnasse British  

/ mɔ̃parnas /

noun

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

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Montparnasse

Soutine settled into a squalid artists’ colony in Montparnasse as one among many Jewish immigrants living there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The authorities in the French capital launched a lottery on Monday, offering 30 monuments for sale in a raffle -- 10 at Pere-Lachaise, 10 at Montparnasse and 10 at Montmartre.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025

Writers Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Samuel Beckett and singer Serge Gainsbourg were laid to rest at Montparnasse, while actress Jane Birkin's ashes were interned there.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025

Moore has set it all down, and his book is an engaging memory piece through a golden era of busted toilets and secondhand smoke that now seems as distant as Montparnasse in the 1920s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

We crossed the Boulevard Montparnasse and sat down at a table.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway