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Montparnasse est un quartier du sud de Paris sur la rive gauche du fleuve Seine situé autour de l’intersection du Boulevard du Montparnasse et du Boulevard Raspail. Il est situé essentiellement dans le 14e arrondissement, et a été absorbé par la ville avec d’autres communes et divisions administratives en 1860.
Le nom de ce quartier avait été donné par les étudiants voisins qui venaient déclamer des vers sur la butte formée par des remblais au XVIIe siècle, en référence au mont Parnasse, résidence des Muses de la mythologie grecque. La colline fut rasée pour tracer le boulevard du Montparnasse au XVIIIe siècle, lieu de promenade de la ville. Dès la Révolution française, de nombreuses salles de danse et cabarets s’y installèrent. Le quartier a donné son nom à une gare, un cimetière et une tour.

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The nearest metro station to access hotel des academies et des arts Paris is Vavin, line 4.
Vavin is a station of the Paris Métro, serving line 4.
The name refers to Rue Vavin, named for 18th-century statesman Alexis Vavin.
Rue Vavin is the home address of the character of French Lieutenant Audebert as played by Guillaume Canet in the 2005 Sony Pictures Classics film Joyeux Noël.

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Tour Maine-Montparnasse (Maine-Montparnasse Tower), also commonly named Tour Montparnasse is a 210-meter (689-foot) tall office skyscraper located in Paris, France, in the area of Montparnasse. Constructed from 1969 to 1972, it is the tallest skyscraper in France and the ninth tallest building in the European Union.[citation needed] In the future, it may be surpassed in height by the Tour AXA (225 m), and later by Tour Phare and Tour Generali (both approximately 300 meters).
The tower was designed by architects Eugène Beaudouin, Urbain Cassan and Louis Hoym de Marien and built by Campenon Bernard.

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This was the first French garden to be influenced by the Italian Baroque. The Luxembourg has long been seen as a quintessential Parisian space and remains very popular. It was designed for anoter Medici princess, Marie, who became Queen of France. Like the Boboli garden where Marie had spent her youth, the Luxembourg plan has two axes at right angles. Jacques Boyceau superintended the layout. Today, as in the seventeenth century, it is a good place to savour the cosmopolitan atmosphere of a rich palace garden. It has changed over the centuries but, judging from Evelyn’s description (below), the character of the garden is not so different. During a period of neglect, some of Watteau’s romantic garden scenes were painted here. The Medici Fountain was moved from its original position and does not do justice to the famous name. There are some public park facilities, including tennis courts and children’s play areas, and over a hundred sculptures, including statues of Stendhal, Chopin, Montesquieu, Phidias, Baudelaire, Delacroix and Blanche of Castile. The parterres on the fringe of the Luxembourg have been laid out in an informal ‘Anglo-Chinois’ manner. The Luxembourg Palace is now used by the French Senate.

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Le jardin du Luxembourg a été créé en 1612 à la demande de Marie de Médicis. Il a fait l’objet d’une restauration dirigée par l’architecte Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin, sous le Premier Empire. Il fait 23 hectares animés de parterres de fleurs et de sculptures. Il est situé dans le VIe arrondissement de Paris. Rendez-vous de prédilection des Parisiens, étudiants ou promeneurs, il attire des visiteurs du monde entier.

Situés au cœur du quartier Latin de Paris, regroupés dans l’enceinte d’une très belle grille dont les pointes sont recouvertes d’une feuille d’or, les jardins accueillent plusieurs bâtiments classés :
- le palais du Luxembourg où siège le Sénat, la chambre haute du Parlement, propriétaire du jardin dont il assure l’entretien (le jardin du Luxembourg est un jardin privé, ouvert au public).
- le musée du Luxembourg, consacré à de grandes expositions temporaires d’art, réputées pour la qualité des œuvres présentées. On accède au palais du Luxembourg et au musée par la rue de Vaugirard.
- l’Orangerie, située sur l’allée Delacroix, qui abrite une série de végétaux dits « d’orangerie », provenant du pourtour méditerranéen, que l’on retrouve dans la partie du jardin dite « à la francaise » à compter du 1er mai. L’été, l’Orangerie sert de salle d’expositions temporaires.
- l’ancien Hôtel Vendôme, aujourd’hui occupé par l’École des Mines de Paris.

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Saint-Germain-des-Prés was originally commissioned as a shelter for King Childebert I’s relic of the True Cross, broungth back from Spain in AD 542. Despite the outside’s very Romanesque architecture, inside the church are many interesting examples of 19th century art. One such piece includes a series of stained glass windows showing scenes from the Old Testament. The church currently does excellent organ concerts on its antique organ.

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Just a few steps from the Jardin du Luxembourg, opposite the Atelier de la Grande Chaumière, a well-known art school, the Hotel des Academies et des Arts remembers the roaring twenties, when Montparnasse was a magnet for artists. Inspired by the hotel’s past and the history of the neighbourhood, Charlotte and Laurent wanted to revive the Hotel des Academies et des Arts’ artistic heritage by bringing together several artists to create an original backdrop for contemporary works of art.

Sophie de Watrigant and Jérôme Mesnager have invested the place with their artistic imagination. Sophie’s sculptures are dotted around the lobby and the “petit bistrot”, going right up the main staircase, where small figures climbing ladders are suspended in the stairwell. Jérôme Mesnager’s jointed figures are painted directly onto wallpaper which serves as his canvas. Take the lift up to the top floor and admire another of Mesnager’s works as you ascend. A white giant also appears on the red-painted wall of the inner courtyard and can be seen from the ground floor right up to the fifth floor at the Hotel des Academies et des Art in Saint Germain des Pres, Paris.

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Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris
Jean-François Raffaëlli (French, 1850–1924)
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1908 (08.123).

Available to see at the Met Museum or online.

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Saint Germain des Pres Cafe: the Finest Electro-Jazz Compilation.
The Electronic Music Tribute To Jazz, 15 tracks featuring Grand Tourism, Saint Germain, Jazzanova, Ian Simmonds, De Phazz and more. 2001. Digipak.
Track Listings
1. ‘Round Midnight
2. Original Oddstep [Revised by Grand Unified]
3. Coffee Talk [Yukihiro Fukutomi Remix]
4. Jazzion
5. Chok-A-Blok Avenue [Nu-Jazz Wilde-Stereo Summer Mix]
6. Yes It’s True
7. Lo-Fi Nu Jazz #13
8. Godsdog
9. At Last
10. Theme to the Last Puma
11. Style
12. G.U.B.N.U.F.
13. Ocean Games
14. Deep in It
15. Courants d’Air

Meditation on light by Jerome Mesnager

The graceful human figures are produced by graffiti artist Jerome Mesnager. It is said that Mesnager’s white figure emerged from a meditation on light. The consistently-rendered figures are read in the same way as a stencil, which at first I thought they were, but they are all drawn free-hand.
His white spectral figures meander the streets of Paris at night, climbing, cavorting, dining, dancing, loving but leaving a distinctive imprint on doors and walls. I read an interview with Jerome Mesnager published in a recent copy of an avant-garde art periodical. When asked as to his methods of producing the elegant graffiti, he stated, “When I find the right door or wall, everything goes fast. I jump against the wall in the pose I want to represent and I paint very fast. It takes 26 seconds.” Wow, I honestly would love to see that!

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