La Coupole, an Art Deco café-cum-restaurant with it's columns painted by artists including Chagall. Further still on Avenue du Maine is the artists’ colony Cité des Arts in a leafy, cobblestoned cul-de-sac.
Here 30 artists’ studios were constructed using material salvaged from the Exposition Universelle de Paris de 1900. One of them was rented by Russian painter Marie Vassilieff, who ran a canteen for impover-ished painters here, and the studios are still in use today.
Most of Montparnasse is in the 14th Arrondissement (district) of Paris. The Jardin de Luxembourg lies on the border in the 6th Arrdondissement