Montmartre has always been famous for its artists, poets, music halls, brothels and every form of high and low life. This book includes photographs, paintings, drawings and posters that best convey the unique atmosphere of Montmartre past and present.

The Symbolists have until recently remained the unknown force of European nineteenth-century painting, hidden behind the brilliant success of the Impressionists, and lost in an oblivion to which the stark functionalism of the years following World War I condemned them. Now Philippe Jullian has selected some of the most exciting examples of the work of the Symbolist painters and provided an account of their development and success.