High On The Northern Edge Of Paris, Montmartre Has Always Attracted Bohemians, Political Radicals, The Searchers For Artistic Inspiration As Well As Those Hungry For Pleasure. In Its Winding, Windmill-shadowed Streets, Which, Only Fifty Years Before, Saw The Anarchist Rising Of The Commune, Renoir, Picasso And Van Gogh Seized A Similar Freedom To Remake Painting, While, In The Tenderloin Of Pigalle, Toulouse-lautrec Drew The Cancan Dancers Of The Moulin Rouge, Celebrating A Hedonism That Titillated The World. For Visitors And Armchair Travelers Alike, Montmartre Captures The Excitement And Scandal Of A Fascinating Quarter That Condenses The Elusive Perfumes, Colors And Songs Of Paris-- Map -- Prologue -- Introduction -- Losing Your Head: The Long Walk Of Saint Denis -- The Cat That Walked By Itself -- Building Boulevards -- A Terrible Beauty: The Commune -- The Daily Grind: The Mills And Mines Of Montmartre -- The Lady Of The Camellias -- The Moulin Rouge -- New Romantics -- Artists And Models 1: Artists -- Artists And Models 2: Models -- Acting Up: Montmartre On Stage -- The Ghost Cabarets: Heaven, Hell And Nothingness -- The Three Penises Of Napoleon Bonaparte -- The Pope Of The Café: Montmartre And Surrealism -- Le Tumulte Noir -- A Village Of Sin -- I Regret Nothing: Edith Piaf -- Liberation -- Books On The Butte -- The Bistro De Cure John Baxter. Inlcudes Index.