Explore Paris ! From 1900 to 1939, avant-garde artists like Picasso , Modigliani and Chagall , came to PARIS Montparnasse to create. They were joined by poets and writers ( Apollinaire , Max Jacob , Andre Breton , Jean Cocteau , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott Fitzgerald ) and russian political exiles ( Lenin , Trotsky ). It's the golden age during which Montparnasse leads the artistic and literary world. After World War II, bohemian life becomes so fashionable that it falls victim to its own success, with a rich and exhibitionist crowd chasing away the artists. Today's Montparnasse is a modern business area dominated by the 209 meters high Montparnasse tower, which is the ideal spot to savour a drink while admiring, from the bar, Hotel Nouvel Orleans or the observation deck, the dream-like Paris landscape.
