My son arrived in Paris this week...

...and will be staying in the 14th arrondissement (above).

Part of the Left Bank, the 13th and 14th arrondissements form the area known as Montparnasse. It was once such a poor neighborhood that writer Victor Hugo used sections of it as settings for his novel Les Misérables.

The 14th arrondissment has held onto its chic reputation from the times when Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Max Ernst would drop in from the Latin Quarter to sit at one of the cafes.

This neighborhood is Paris at its most Bohemian. There are endless galleries and cinemas like L'Entrepot. There are also quaint cobblestone streets near Metro Pernety and hundreds of artists ateliers and workshops holding vernissages almost nightly. (Whatever that means.)

I can't wait to visit him!