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Just a few steps west of Sacré-Cœur is St-Pierre-de-Montmartre, one of the city’s oldest churches.
Holed up in his squalid attic studio in Montmartre (models complained of the dust, but Degas believed that sweeping just moved the dust around), Degas narrowed his subject matter to a few recurrent motifs--women bathing, having their hair combed, and dancing--while at the same time experimenting with a remarkable range of techniques and media (photography, tracing paper, lurid color combinations).
The principal cemetery of Montmartre, where luminaries of the arts such as the composers Berlioz and Offenbach lie buried, may seem a world away, but it’s only a short walk west from the Moulin Rouge to the entrance (west past the Moulin Rouge, then right at avenue Rachel).
Montparnasse took over from Montmartre as the haunt of the avant-garde in the 1920s and still stakes a claim.
They invented the cancan here in 1845 in a local dance hall, and in the 1920s, the quarter took over from Montmartre as the stamping ground of the city’s artistic colony, led by Picasso.