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The "heyday"of Montparnasse was during the early 1900's when artists such as Picasso, his poet friend Apollinaire, Leger, and Soutine, moved from Montmartre, where the rents had become too high, to Montparnasse. Between the wars Chagall, Zadkine and other Russian expatriates made their homes here as well as Americans; writers Henry Miller, Exra Pound and Gertrude Stein and the photographer Man Ray. Mondrian moved here in 1926 and was where he died and his mistress committed suicide. Foujita, Braque, Rouault and Klee lived in Montparnasse, while the famous artistsí muse and friend, Kiki, reigned here. It was a very lively 'avant-garde'scene with cafes and jazz clubs where the artists, writers and intellectuals met, discussed, drank, ate.
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