Dan Marshall

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During our most recent trip to paris, we stopped in les deux magots for coffee after visiting the Delacroix museum. This cafe has such an interesting history. This is an excerpt from the cafe’s homepage http://www.lesdeuxmagots.fr/histoire.php With the twenties came the exuberance and energy of the surrealist movement and its leading proponents could be found in passionate discussions over a coffee or a drink in “Les Deux Magots”. Then in 1933, after Andre Malraux had been awarded the prestigious Goncourt Prize for an academic novel, a group of enthusiastic writers decided that there should be another independent prize for talent and originality. At that moment “Le Prix des Deux Magots” was born and it was first awarded to Raymond Queneau for ‘Le Chiendent’.In the tense pre-war atmosphere, Saint Germain des Pres became the intellectual centre of Paris : Gide, Guehenno, Malraux and Chamson regularly ended up in discussions on the café terrace. Paul Eluard introduced Dora Maar to Picasso at “Les Deux Magots”. Françoise Giroud would have a coffee with Saint Exupery while Paul Morand would be deep in conversation with his friend Jean Giraudoux.Every morning, Jean Paul Sartre with Simone de Beauvoir would take his seat at “Les Deux Magots” and write for hours, often without pause, but sometimes stopping to talk to Ernest Hemingway, another regular customer. les deux magots watercolor 9x12

During our most recent trip to paris, we stopped in les deux magots for coffee after visiting the Delacroix museum. This cafe has such an interesting history. This is an excerpt from the cafe’s homepage http://www.lesdeuxmagots.fr/histoire.php

With the twenties came the exuberance and energy of the surrealist movement and its leading proponents could be found in passionate discussions over a coffee or a drink in “Les Deux Magots”. Then in 1933, after Andre Malraux had been awarded the prestigious Goncourt Prize for an academic novel, a group of enthusiastic writers decided that there should be another independent prize for talent and originality. At that moment “Le Prix des Deux Magots” was born and it was first awarded to Raymond Queneau for ‘Le Chiendent’.
In the tense pre-war atmosphere, Saint Germain des Pres became the intellectual centre of Paris : Gide, Guehenno, Malraux and Chamson regularly ended up in discussions on the café terrace. Paul Eluard introduced Dora Maar to Picasso at “Les Deux Magots”. Françoise Giroud would have a coffee with Saint Exupery while Paul Morand would be deep in conversation with his friend Jean Giraudoux.
Every morning, Jean Paul Sartre with Simone de Beauvoir would take his seat at “Les Deux Magots” and write for hours, often without pause, but sometimes stopping to talk to Ernest Hemingway, another regular customer.

les deux magots watercolor 9x12

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