Where Kiki de Montparnasse spent her last years before passing in 1953. Alice Ernestine Prin (1901–1953), so-called Kiki de Montparnasse, the Queen of Montparnasse, a French model, chanteuse, actress, memoirist and painter during the Jazz Age. She flourished in and helped define the liberated culture of Paris in the so-called Années folles ("crazy years" in ...