Montmartre: Facts

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16th-century English diplomat Francis Bryan disgraced himself by throwing eggs and stones at the common people during a mission to Paris?
French anarchist Theodule Meunier, responsible for several bombings in Paris in 1902, was featured as a Sherlock Holmes antagonist in René Réouven's L'Assassin du Boulevard?
Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street?
Honoré de Balzac once observed that "the heart of Paris today beats between rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin and rue du Faubourg Montmartre"?
Mexican cuisine celebrity chef and author Marcela Valladolid has also been classically trained as a pastry chef in Paris?
Paris currently has more than 360 working fountains, including one, the Fontaine des Innocents (pictured), in use since the 16th century?
Paris has held six BIE-sanctioned world's expositions, but the most recent was in 1937?
Paris-based Naye Prese was the sole Yiddish-language communist daily newspaper in Europe during the interbellum period?
Peter Paul Rubens produced a series of paintings depicting episodes from Marie de' Medici's life for the Luxembourg Palace in Paris?
Philippe Égalité's Château du Raincy near Paris contained an outcrop of houses scored to resemble traditional Russian log huts?

in addition to having Central America's largest roller coaster, Xetulul Theme Park has replicas of Moulin Rouge, the Trevi Fountain, and the Tikal Temple of the Great Jaguar? (replica pictured)

the Norwegian black/death metal band Cor Scorpii cites inspiration from classical composers such as Prokofiev, Grieg, Rachmaninov, and Satie?

Pablo Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat, a 1941 portrait of Picasso's mistress Dora Maar, recently sold for $95.2 million, making it one of the most expensive paintings in the world?
Françoise Gilot married the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and later in life was also wed to the famous doctor, Jonas Salk?
the 1904 painting by Pablo Picasso, The Actor, estimated to be worth over $100 million, was torn when a woman stumbled and fell into it?
the NYU University Village is a former Mitchell-Lama housing complex that hosts a Pablo Picasso sculpture?
the Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto, by Pablo Picasso, is the most highly estimated work of art to be offered at an auction in Europe?
the Yokohama Museum of Art has Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Salvador Dalí and Henri Matisse represented in its collection?