Saint Pierre de Montmartre : The oldest church in Paris is the last remnant of the royal abbey founded by Louis VI and his wife Adélaide de Savoie. On the left, the "cimetiere du Calvaire, cemetery open only on Allsaintsday. Here lie Bougainville, the duke of Fitz-James and the sculptor Pigalle.Around World War I, writers, poets and artists of the avant-garde abandoned Montmartre and moved to Montparnasse, shifting the core of Paris'S artistic and cultural life to the area around Boulevard du Montparnasse.Chagall, Modigliani, Leger, Soutine, Miro, Kandinsky, Picasso, Stravinsky, Hemingway, Henry Miller and Cocteau as well as political exiles such as Lenin and Trotsky all used to hang out here at various times, talking endlessly in the cafés and restaurants for which the quarter is still famous (Le Dôme, La Coupole...)