Montparnasse
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Montparnasse is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes
Montparnasse cemetery
Le Dôme Café
The 1895 Montparnasse derailment at Gare Montparnasse
Modigliani, Picasso and Salmon, at La Rotonde, by Cocteau, 1916.
Mount Parnassus
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Mount Parnassus is a mountain range of Central Greece that is, and historically has been, especially valuable to the Greek nation and the earlier Greek city-states for many reasons. In peace, it offer
Montparnasse
…Tour Montparnasse, a lone skyscraper. Students in the 17th century who came to recite poetry in the hilly neighbourhood nicknamed it after "Mount Parnassus", home to the nine Muses of arts and sciences in Greek mythology. The hill was levelled to construct the Boulevard Montparnasse in the 18th century…
Mount Parnassus
Entrance to the Corycian Cave
The Parnassus, c. 1509-1511, by Raphael
Painting of Mount Parnassus from Edward Dodwell's Views in Greece, 1821