Paris Charming Hotels From 1900 to 1939, avant-garde artists like Picasso , Modigliani and Chagall , came to Montparnasse (Paris) to create. They were joined by poets and writers ( Apollinaire , Max Jacob , Andre Breton , Jean Cocteau , Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott Fitzgerald ) and russian political exiles ( Lenin , Trotsky ). It's the golden age during which Montparnasse leads the artistic and literary world.After World WarII,bohemian life becomes so fashionable that it falls victim to its own success, with a rich and exhibitionist crowd chasing away the artists. Created from three farms in 1824, the Montparnasse in Paris cemetery was originally known as Le Cimetiere du Sud. Cemeteries had been banned from Paris since the shutting down of the Cimetiere des Innocents in 1786 on the fringe of Les Halles food market on the grounds that it presented a health hazard.