Les Buttes: The range runs from the beautiful to the quaint, through the tawdry to the sordid. It has many seductive village corners and even more brutal city traps. It has broad avenues, but it also has winding lanes, some of which transform themselves into five-flight stairways. From the early 19th century until the 1920s' migration to Montparnasse, it was the great art colony of Paris. Some sections are mercilessly gewgawed for the tourist trade and others are unselfconsciously picturesque. It is the home of the hundreds of thousands of handworking, ordinary folk and one of the main centres of crime and prostitution. Montmartre itself is strewn with cheap little nightclubs, which often prove to be menacingly expensive.