:for the restaurant in hollywood see cafÃ© montmartre.   montmartre () is a hill in the north of paris, france. it is 130 metres high and gives its name to the surrounding district, in the 18th arrondissement, a part of the right bank. the historic district established by the city of paris in 1995 is bordered by rue caulaincourt and rue custine on the north; rue de clignancourt on the east; boulevard clichy and boulevard rochechouart to the south; and rue caulaincourt to the on the west, containing sixty hectares.dictionnaire historique de paris, p. 476 montmartre is primarily known for the white-domed basilica of the sacrÃ© cÅur on its summit and as a nightclub district. the other, older, church on the hill is saint pierre de montmartre, which claims to be the location at which the jesuit order of priests was founded. many artists had studios or worked in or around montmartre, including salvador dalÃ­, amedeo modigliani, claude monet, piet mondrian, pablo picasso, camille pissarro and vincent van gogh. montmartre is also the setting for several hit films. this site is served by metro line 2 stations of anvers, pigalle and blanche and the line 12 stations of pigalle, abbesses, lamarck - caulaincourt and jules joffrin. ==name origin== the toponym mons martis ("mount of mars" in latin) survived into merovingian times, christianised as montmartre,bailey k. young, "archaeology in an urban setting: excavations at saint-pierre-de-montmartre, paris, 1975-1977" journal of field archaeology 5.3 (autumn 1978:319-329) p 321: "the tradition that a temple of mars stood on the south bluff and a temple of mercury farther west was known to early modern Ã©rudits. signifying 'mountain of the martyr'; it owes this name to the martyrdom of saint denis,the "place called the mont of mars, now by a happy mutation known as the mont of martyrs", miracles of saint denis (831) quoted in young 1978:321 note5. who was decapitated on the hill around 250 ad. saint denis was the bishop of paris and is a patron saint of france. ==history== [[image:stpierreparis.jpg|thumb|right|saint-pierre de montmartre (1133) seen from the dome of the basilica 
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