Place St. Pierre - Montmartre

"The hill of Montmartre, rising 340 feet above the Seine, from which one can see - as from a magic carpet - the rest of Paris spreading out, has a fascinating history reaching back to the time of the Romans. The colourful winding streets of Montmartre are picturesque and evocative of a bohmeian atmosphere and artistic life to which Berlioz, Renoir, Picasso and many other creative personalities contributed. If Utrillo had not lived and had not painted Montmartre, would we today look at it differently and see only its dirt, tawdriness and decay?" (G. von Groschwitz, exh. cat., Maurice Utrillo, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh 1963).