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Montparnasse
Montparnasse, a Left Bank Paris quarter around Boulevard du Montparnasse and Gare Montparnasse, famed for its 1920s artist community (Modigliani, Kiki de Montparnasse), the 209-meter Tour Montparnasse, and its large cemetery.
Montparnasse Cemetery
Montparnasse Cemetery (Cimetière du Montparnasse, formerly Cimetière du Sud) is a Paris municipal cemetery opened 25 July 1824, the second largest in Paris at 19 hectares, holding about 35,000 plots and graves of Baudelaire, Sartre, Beauvoir, Beckett, and Gainsbourg.
Montparnasse derailment
The Montparnasse derailment, also called the Montparnasse train crash, was an 1895 railway accident in which the Granville–Paris Express overran Gare Montparnasse and fell nose-first onto the street below.
Montpelier (Orange, Virginia)
Montpelier (Orange, Virginia), not Montpelier, Vermont: James Madison's plantation estate and National Historic Landmark in Orange County, a 2,700-acre National Trust site with 135 buildings, restored 2004-2009, and an active archaeology program.
Montpelier, Vermont
Montpelier, Vermont: capital of Vermont since 1805 and the smallest U.S. state capital, with about 8,000 residents at the confluence of the Winooski and North Branch rivers, site of the gold-domed Vermont State House and the July 2023 flood.
Montpellier
Montpellier, Occitanie, France: seventh-largest French city (307,101 inhabitants), medieval university city with Europe's oldest operating medical school (1220), 80,000 students, free resident public transport since 2023, five tram lines.
Montpellier HSC
Montpellier HSC (MHSC), French football club from Montpellier, founded 1919 as SOM, Nicollin family since 1974, Coupe de France 1929 and 1990, Ligue 1 champion 2012, relegated to Ligue 2 in 2025, plays at Stade de la Mosson.
Montreal
Montreal (Montréal) is a major Quebec metropolis founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie. It is the largest francophone city in the Americas and is not the world's second-largest French-speaking city.
Montreal (castle)
Montreal's castle is the Château Ramezay (Château De Ramezay), a 1705 stone mansion in Old Montreal built for governor Claude de Ramezay, rebuilt after a 1754 fire, later British Government House, and now a history museum.
Montreal Alouettes
Montreal Alouettes, CFL East Division Canadian football team founded 1946 by Lew Hayman and Léo Dandurand; eight Grey Cups including 2023; owned by Pierre Karl Péladeau; home Percival Molson Stadium.
Montreal Biodome
The Montreal Biodome (Biodôme de Montréal) is a museum in Montreal that recreates five ecosystems of the Americas inside the former velodrome of the 1976 Olympic Games.
Montreal Botanical Garden
The Montreal Botanical Garden (Jardin botanique de Montréal) is a botanical garden in eastern Montreal, founded in 1931, with about 22,000 plant species in 30 thematic gardens.
Montreal Canadiens
Montreal Canadiens (Canadiens de Montréal), NHL club founded 1909 in Montreal; record 24 Stanley Cups, Original Six member, plays at Bell Centre, valued at $3.4B by Forbes in 2025.
Montreal Cognitive Assessment
Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), a 10-minute cognitive screening test developed by Ziad Nasreddine in 1996, published 2005; detects mild cognitive impairment, cutoff below 26/30, more sensitive than MMSE, education-adjusted cutoffs vary widely.
Montreal Convention
The Montreal Convention is a 1999 treaty governing air carriers' liability for international carriage of passengers, baggage, and cargo, replacing the 1929 Warsaw Convention system.
Montreal Expos
Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal), National League expansion team 1969-2004, Canada's first MLB club, homes Jarry Park and Olympic Stadium, 1981 NLCS Blue Monday, 1994 strike, relocated to Washington as the Nationals in 2005.
Montreal General Hospital
The Montreal General Hospital is a bilingual academic hospital in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1821 and now one of the six sites of the McGill University Health Centre.
Montreal International Jazz Festival
Montreal International Jazz Festival (Festival international de Jazz de Montréal, FIJM), annual late-June festival in Montreal's Quartier des spectacles since 1980; Guinness-record largest jazz festival (1,913,868 attendees, 2004), with 350+ concerts, two thirds free.
Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway
The Montréal Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) was a Class II regional freight railroad operating in Maine, Vermont, and Quebec from January 2003 until its bankruptcy in 2013.
Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro (Métro de Montréal) is the rubber-tired rapid transit system serving Montreal, Quebec, inaugurated in 1966 and operated by the STM, with 68 stations on four lines.
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty that sets binding phase-out schedules for ozone-depleting substances. It has phased out about 99 percent of these substances globally.
Montreal Roses FC
Montreal Roses FC (Roses de Montréal), founded 2024 by Chevalier and Crevier, is a professional women's soccer club in Canada's Northern Super League, playing at Stade Boréale in Laval; 2025 semifinalist with the league's best defense.
Montreal Screwjob
Montreal Screwjob: real-life double-cross at WWF Survivor Series, November 9, 1997, Molson Centre, Montreal, where Vince McMahon, Shawn Michaels, and referee Earl Hebner ended Bret Hart's title match without a submission.
Montreal-style smoked meat
Montreal-style smoked meat (viande fumée) is cured, smoked and steamed beef brisket, a Montreal Jewish deli specialty related to New York pastrami but made from whole brisket, drier-cured, fattier and smokier, famous at Schwartz's since 1928.
Montréal–Trudeau International Airport
Montréal–Trudeau International Airport, formerly Dorval Airport, is the international airport serving Montréal, Quebec, opened in 1941, renamed for Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 2004, and handling 22.4 million passengers in 2025.
Montreal, My Beautiful
Montreal, My Beautiful (Montréal, ma belle) is a 2025 Canadian queer drama by Xiaodan He starring Joan Chen as Feng Xia, a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant in Montreal who falls for a younger Québécoise woman, Camille (Charlotte Aubin). Premiered at Festival du nouveau cinéma, released February 13, 2026.
Montrell Culbreath
Montrell Amare Culbreath (born 2007, Landstuhl) is a German-American right winger for Bayer 04 Leverkusen; ex-Kaiserslautern youth, scored on his December 2025 Bundesliga debut, Germany U19 international also capped by USA U16.
Montreuil-Bellay
Montreuil-Bellay, a commune in Maine-et-Loire, France, on the Thouet: château founded by Foulques Nerra around 1025, Prieuré des Nobis (1097), collégiale Notre-Dame, Roman coin hoard, and a WWII internment camp.
Montreux
Montreux, Vaud commune on the eastern shore of Lake Geneva in the Swiss Riviera; 28,052 residents (2025), formed 1962 by merger, home of the Montreux Jazz Festival and the 2M2C convention centre.
Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits
Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits (Montrö Boğazlar Sözleşmesi): 1936 treaty giving Turkey control of the Bosporus and Dardanelles, preserving merchant-ship passage, capping non-Black Sea warships (10,000 tons, 45,000 tons aggregate, 21 days), invoked against warship transits in 2022.