Montparnasse is a neighborhood in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, France. It became part of Paris in 1669, and students in the 17th-century who came to recite poetry in the hilly neighborhood named it "Montparnasse" after Mount Parnassus in Ancient Greece, home to the nine Muses of arts and sciences in Greek mythology. The hill was levelled to construct the Boulevard Montparnasse in the 18th century, and many dance halls and cabarets opened their doors during the French Revolution. It lends its name to the Gare Montparnasse train station, the Cimitiere du Montparnasse, and the Tour Montparnasse skyscraper, and Montparnasse was known as a hub of the arts (including a large community of American expatriate artists) and political exiles (including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Porfirio Diaz, and Symon Petliura) during the Interwar period.
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