Café Anglais
The Café Anglais was a famous restaurant in Paris . Its name recalls the Peace of Amiens . It opened in 1802 on Boulevard des Italiens (No. 13) on the corner of rue de Marivaux and closed in 1913; today there is an Art Nouveau building on the site .
The regulars included Alfred de Musset , Alexandre Dumas and Eugène Sue . The establishment had its gastronomic marriage under head chef Adolphe Dugléré (1805–1884); he composed, among other things, the menu for the "three emperors" Alexander II , Alexander III. and Wilhelm I. (as well as Otto von Bismarck ) on the occasion of their visit to the world exhibition in 1867 .
The Café Anglais in literature
The Café Anglais is mentioned in Balzac's novels Goriot and Lost Illusions ; it is the setting of the 5th act of the operetta Pariser Leben by Jacques Offenbach, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy , is also mentioned in Flaubert's Education of the Emotions , in Zolas Nana , in the second volume of Proust's Search for Lost Time , in Karen Blixens The story of Babette's Banquet , in Alice B. Toklas ' cookbook , in Umberto Eco's cemetery in Prague and in Alev Croutier's novella Palace of Tears .
Web links
- Café Anglais: lieu de rendez-vous du Tout-Paris d'antan (based on Le Gaulois , 1910) online at www.france-pittoreque.com (French)
- Le Café Anglais d'Adolphe Dugléré on www.paris-bistro.com (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 52 ′ 16.76 " N , 2 ° 20 ′ 14.96" E