Tag Archives: Café de Flore

L’embarass de choix

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Patricia Gilbert

Recently, I’ve written about Café de Flore and Les Deux Magots. The third big café on the Boulevard Saint-Germain-des-Prés is Brasserie Lipp. It has been in business since 1880 when Léonard Lipp moved to Paris from Alsace after France lost … Continue reading →

Posted in Cuisine, Travel | Tagged Albert Camus, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Brasserie Lipp, Café de Flore, Françoise Sagan, L’embarass de choix, Léonard Lipp, Les Deux Magots, Prix Cazes | Leave a comment

Magot

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Patricia Gilbert

Recently, I wrote about Le Café de Flore and Le Petit Zinc in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighborhood of Paris. Another big-name café is Les Deux Magots. A magot (magoh) is a slang term for a hoard of money. The name comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Cuisine, Travel | Tagged Café de Flore, Les Deux Magots, Mallarmé, Paris, Polidor, Prix des Deux Magots, Rimbaud, Saint-Germain, Verlaine | 2 Comments

Qui a bu boira

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Patricia Gilbert

During my first trip to Paris, I stayed in a hotel right across from the Café de Flore on Saint Germain-des-Prés, one of the mythic literary cafés in Paris. The café dates to 1887 and quickly became THE literary hangout. … Continue reading →