Les Deux Magots, the venerable Saint-Germain-des-Prés café tremendous near our motels has fairly just a few juicy tales to let you know in its new exhibition 140 years of artistic minds in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
All method of celebrities have hung out there over time – painters, musicians, authors… The exhibition will let you know all about them, highlight the structure of the place and inform its historical past by means of the record of glitterati that handed by means of or had been regulars.
And along with celebrating 140 years for the reason that café’s opening, they’ve some fascinating information – this summer season they are going to be opening a second spot, lower than a minute from the Lodge Saint-André des Arts…
There are a handful of locations that actually make Saint-Germain-des-Prés one thing particular, the three greatest of which might in all probability by the Café de Flore, the restaurant Brasserie Lipp and… Les Deux Magots, truly based just a few years earlier than the Flore(!) and pleased with it.
On place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, reverse the church, this literary café has at all times attracted artists, intellectuals and celebrities (or wannabe celebrities). This infinite stream of writers, musicians, painters, philosophers, actors, sculptors, trend designers and designers constructed the café’s longstanding popularity because the place to see and be seen, in its ornate rooms or huge terrace.
Mainly, it’s a spot that needs to be on the bucket record of each customer to Paris.
For the exhibition celebrating the café’s a hundred and fortieth anniversary, quite a few carefully-selected pictures are on show, exhibiting the massive names which have handed by means of the doorways.
You’ll additionally have the ability to be taught extra about how the café has modified and developed over time, and see two statuettes connected to a column in the principle room, the well-known ‘magots’ behind the place’s identify.
And for much more particulars concerning the iconic café, a small e-book is available for purchase on-site, giving extra data on the café by means of the years, and some selection tales of memorable occasions and well-known clients.
If you wish to comply with within the steps of Rimbaud, Verlaine, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, André Breton, Jean-Paul Sartre, Juliette Gréco, Marlène Dietrich, Charlotte Rampling, Johnny Depp, Jack Nicholson, J.J Abrams, Giorgio Armani, Sonia Rykiel, Paul McCartney and John Lennon, you recognize the place to go…
And this summer season, maintain your eye on 2 rue de Buci (right here) for the café’s new idea, Les Deux Magots to remove! The legend continues – extra particulars quickly….
Les Deux Magots (right here) is open seven days every week from 7.30-1am
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