Edgar Quinet district (19)

The Edgar Quinet district, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, is centred on the boulevard of the same name, 621 metres long, which links Boulevard Raspail to Tour Montparnasse along the northern wall of the Montparnasse cemetery. Its tree-lined central strip hosts a food market on Wednesday and Saturday mornings, as well as the Marché de la création, an open-air art market established in 1994 on the initiative of André Felten, where around a hundred artists exhibit every Sunday. Edgar Quinet metro station, opened in 1906 on line 6, serves the area. Shaped by the artistic ferment of early-20th-century Montparnasse, the district today retains cafés, historic brasseries and local shops at the foot of the tower. 

Montparnasse district (1)

This part of the Montparnasse district, in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, brings together two buildings on Boulevard du Montparnasse. The Pullman Paris Montparnasse hotel, a 116-metre skyscraper built between 1971 and 1974 by architect Pierre Dufau, belongs to the Maine-Montparnasse redevelopment built near the railway station and the Tour Montparnasse; opened as the Paris-Sheraton Hotel, it became Le Méridien Montparnasse and, since 2011, the Pullman Paris Montparnasse. A few hundred metres away, the La Coupole brasserie, opened on 27 December 1927 by Ernest Fraux and René Lafon and decorated by twenty-seven painters, remains a landmark of Parisian artistic life between the two world wars; its interior decor has been a listed historic monument since 1988. 

Notre-Dame-du-Travail church (14)

The Notre-Dame-du-Travail church stands in the Plaisance district of the 14th arrondissement of Paris. Built between 1899 and 1902 by architect Jules-Godefroy Astruc at the initiative of Father Soulange-Bodin, it replaced the former Notre-Dame-de-Plaisance church, which had become too small as the district grew rapidly. Funded through public subscription, it was erected for the local working-class population, many of whom helped assemble Paris's world's fairs. Behind a Romanesque cut-stone facade, the interior surprises visitors with its 135-tonne iron and steel frame, inspired by the Eiffel Tower, which replaces traditional arches and columns. The listed historic monument still holds a bell brought back from Sevastopol after the Crimean War. 

Quartier Daguerre & Denfert Rochereau (7)

This part of the 14th arrondissement of Paris links Place Denfert-Rochereau and Rue Daguerre, less than 500 metres apart. The square, laid out on the site of the former Barrière d'Enfer toll gate of the Wall of the Farmers-General, is dominated by the Lion of Belfort, a one-third-scale copper replica of the work by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, erected in 1880 to honour Belfort's resistance during the Franco-Prussian War. The neighbouring metro station retains an Art Nouveau entrance designed by Hector Guimard in 1900, and a Wallace fountain, funded by British philanthropist Richard Wallace, has provided free drinking water there since the nineteenth century. To the east, Rue Daguerre, a pedestrian shopping street, takes its name from Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype. 

Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge church (10)

Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge church stands at 82 Avenue du Général-Leclerc in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, at the Petit-Montrouge crossroads marked by Place Victor-et-Hélène-Basch. Built between 1863 and 1872 to designs by architect Émile Vaudremer as part of the Haussmannian works, it occupies a triangular plot and is notable for its octagonal-spired bell tower and porch, visible from several avenues. Neo-Romanesque in style, the building blends Paleochristian, Byzantine and Romanesque references in a rationalist composition of stone and millstone grit. It has been listed as a historical monument since a decree of 12 July 1982. Its interior features a mosaic floor and an apse decorated with a polychrome frieze.