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The café-concert had its heyday during the Belle Époque in Paris when Les Ambassadeurs became a regular destination of some of the best known figures of art and the demi-monde, and almost every vaudeville and music hall entertainer that mattered in those days performed there, such as Aristide Bruant, Zulma Bouffar, Polaire, Paula Brébion ...
The café was bought by Jean Louis Hilbert between the two wars and took the name La Palette in 1950. [1] The establishment has two rooms: the tiny bar room, and the larger back room (which used to be a billiard hall [2]) that is adorned with ceramics of the 1930–40s and numerous paintings.
A later 1927 version, Le Café de la Rotonde, was part of the Tableaux de Paris of 1929. [8] Picasso portrayed two diners in the cafe in his painting In the cafe de la Rotonde in 1901; as did the Russian artist Alexandre Jacovleff aka Alexander Yevgenievich Yakovlev in the similarly titled In the Cafe de la Rotonde.
The cafés of Paris are no longer part of her intellectual life, but they are certainly the chief feature of her streets; on pavements hardly wide enough for a honeymoon couple to walk on, a flimsy chair and an oak-grained tin table will defend against all-comers the right of every good Frenchman to enjoy upon the very streets of the loved city ...
Le Dôme in the early part of the 20th century Building with the Café du Dôme on the ground floor taken in 2006. Le Dôme Café (French pronunciation: [lə dom]) or Café du Dôme is a restaurant in Montparnasse, Paris that first opened in 1898 (127 years ago) ().
Painting by Konstantin Korovin, 1906 Another view by Korovin. The Café de la Paix (French pronunciation: [kafe də la pɛ]) is a famous café located on the northwest corner of the intersection of the Boulevard des Capucines and the Place de l'Opéra, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France.
The Nouvelle Athènes, or Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes, was a café located at 66 Rue Pigalle in the Place Pigalle in the quartier Nouvelle Athènes, [1] Paris, France. [2] It was the setting for many Impressionist paintings, as a result of being the meeting place for painters, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] including Matisse , Van Gogh and Degas .
Le Select is a Parisian brasserie founded in 1923 in the 6th arrondissement at 99 Boulevard Montparnasse, in the Notre-Dame-des-Champs neighborhood. It was one of the more prominent meeting places of the Parisian intellectuals between the two world wars, with a significant place in the Bohemian Culture of the period.