Musée Zadkine
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Retrace your steps to Boulevard du Montparnasse and turn left. La Closerie des Lilas will be on your left at No. 171. This was the favourite bar of writers like Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald as well as revolutionaries such as Lenin and Trotsky. The décor has remained unchanged since those glory days, and the terrace is still popular. Hemingway is reputed to have written most of The Sun Also Rises on the terrace in just six weeks.
La Closerie des Lilas
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Walk back up Boulevard du
Montparnasse a little and turn left
onto rue Campagne-Première. This
street has some interesting Art
Nouveau buildings, particularly
the row of artists’ studios on the
left at No. 31. Overlooking the
small park, these were built
in 1911 and the building’s
façade was decorated by
the ceramicist Paul Bigot.
Between World Wars I and
II many famous artists
lived and worked here,
including Picasso, Joan
Miró and Kandinsky.
Modigliani, ravaged by
opium and tuberculosis,
spent the last years of
his life at No. 3.
Rue Campagne-Première
Montparnasse
131
