An Unusual Art walk from Montparnasse metro station to Rue du Bac metro station (15th to 7th arrondissements) to download for 5 euros (secured payment by Paypal or credit card), for half a day or one day if you visit the museums 

An exiting walk to do with your family, friends or alone just for the pleasure ! 

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Discover some surprising “little” museums (Musée du Montparnasse, Musée Bourdelle and Musée Maillol), Rue du Cherche Midi and its architectural gems, Juliette Récamier and her salon, the Lutetia Hotel, the Bon Marché department store, a kitchen garden and an English garden, a curiosity shop, our top arty addresses for a drink, lunch or stay, and many more surprises!

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Extracts :

• Upon exiting the Montparnasse metro station at Place Bienvenue, cross the bridge to discover a lush, green cul-de-sac located at 21 Avenue du Maine and visit Musée du Montparnasse, one of the smallest museums in Paris (see Practical Info). Be careful not to miss the entrance hidden among the foliage! Montparnasse owes its reputation to a period at the start of the twentieth century, around 1910-1920, during which French and European “Ecole de Paris” artists (a name given to the movement by critics) producing figurative art, such as Picasso, Foujita, Pascin, …
• Rue du Cherche-Midi has a charm that is almost without equal in Paris. Settled from the 17th century onwards, the 18th century saw it lined with mansions …
• …to relax in Square Roger Stephane (previously Square Récamier), a charming scented English garden (with lavender, sage, etc.). This is where the Abbaye-aux-Bois was located: a convent which offered apartments to high-born but penniless women and which was home to Juliette Récamier for 30 years from 1819-1849. Here, she created her famous salon …

Our top arty addresses to stop for a coffee, lunch or a stay along the walk :  Le Petit Olivier, Mamie Gateaux, Hotel Saint Grégoire, La Belle Juliette, Hôtel Lindbergh, Hôtel Lutetia Paris Rive-Gauche …

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Look at the slideshow – Download the digital guide for 5 euros. Follow the itinerary on Google Map and … share with us your anecdotes and discoveries

An exiting walk to do with your family, friends or alone for the pleasure, during half a day or one day if you visit the museums 

Download our digital guide of Paris Monceau-Ternes Artistic Itinerary for the price of 5 euros by Secured Payment by Paypal or credit card 

The digital guide is a PDF document including the detailed itinerary, the complete information concerning the places to visit, our good adresses .
Easy to read on mobile phone or tablets, store it in your ibooks library !

Extracts :

Artistic itinerary from Monceau Metro station to the Magasins Réunis building (now the FNAC) on avenue des Ternes. You can then find your way easily to Etoile by going along avenue Mac Mahon.

• The entrance to “Monceau” metro station by Hector Guimard is a fine example of this style.
  Hector Guimard is one of the great French architects of the Art Nouveau era (beginning of the 20th century). He was happy to work with steel, a developing material at this time, during the Industrial Revolution. He designed the famous Parisian underground entrances (see our article: Keys for art history/Art Nouveau).
• First, take Rue de Prony, behind you …
• Monceau park (opening onto boulevard de Courcelles and boulevard Malesherbes)
  Created in 1778 as a site for the Duke of Chartres’ folly (a small, sophisticated and surprising house built for its owner’s entertainment and often embellished with a beautiful park), Monceau park was redesigned in an English style under Napoléon III around 1850.
• A rotunda dating from the 18th century stands in the entrance reached from the underground. Wandering around the park reveals monuments to 19th century artists (Maupassant, Gounod, Musset, etc.), ornamental buildings (types of ruins recalling the great civilisations in the form of pyramids, temples, columns, etc.), a lake and some ducks.
• The neighbouring streets, particularly rue Monceau, Murillo, Rembrandt and their private mansions.
• The Art Nouveau buildings by the architect Jules Lavirotte and the sculptor Binet built in1906 at 23 avenue de Messine, 75008 Paris, and at the corner of avenue de Messine/ rue de Messine (see our article: Keys for art history/Art Nouveau)
  …

Go up avenue Mac Mahon to get to Etoile

Museums

• Nissim de Camondo museum
  63 rue de Monceau, 75008 Paris, Tel. +331 53 89 06 50
  http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/francais/nissim-de-camondo/
  This museum is Baron Moîse de Camondo’s former private mansion, dedicated to his son, Nissim. It houses an exceptional collection of 18th century furniture and objets d’art which remain as they were upon the death of their owner in 1935. A timeless visit which is an absolute must-see.
  Our favourites: a Bonheur du jour writing table by Martin Carlin, a chiffonier table by Jean-Henri Riesener, the kitchens on the ground floor
• …

Our arty adresses to have lunch or take a cup of tea …

Monceau-Ternes Itinerary Google Map

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