FOURTEENTH ARRONDISSEMENT ,

The northern end of this large arrondissement is devoted to montparnasse, home of the "lost generation" and stomping ground of stein, toklas, hemingway, and other american expatriates of the 1920s. After world war ıı, it ceased to be the center of intellectual life, but the memory lingers in its cafes. One of the monuments that sets the tone of the neighborhood is rodin's statue of balzac at the junction of boulevards montparnasse and raspail. At this corner are some of the world's most famous literary cafes, including la rotonde, le select, la dôme, and la coupole. though gertrude stein avoided them (she loathed cafes), other american expats, including hemingway and fitzgerald, had no qualms about enjoying a drink here (or quite a few of them, for that matter). stein stayed at home (27 rue de fleurus) with alice b. toklas, collecting paintings, including those of picasso, and entertaining the likes of max jacob, apollinaire, t. s. eliot, and matisse.