Café de Flore

Café de Flore (2019)

The Café de Flore is a café in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district of the 6th arrondissement in Paris . It is on the corner of Boulevard Saint-Germain at number 172 and Rue Saint-Benoît .

history

The café was opened in 1887 during the Third Republic . It owes its name to a sculpture of the goddess Flora that stood across the street. In the 1920s, Charles Maurras lived above the Café de Flore, where he wrote his book Au signe de Flore , published in 1931 .

Many intellectuals such as Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre , who held a press conference here in 1964 to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and artists such as Alberto Giacometti , Pablo Picasso , Boris Vian , Guillaume Apollinaire and Jean Cocteau were regular guests. James Baldwin was also a frequent guest and wrote his debut novel Go and Announce It from the Mountains there . Karl Lagerfeld , who lived near the café (rue de Lille 7), was a frequent guest at Café de Flore.

Every year in November the “ Prix ​​de Flore ” literary prize , founded in 1994 by Frédéric Beigbeder , is given to promising young authors in the café .

literature

• Christophe Durand-Boubal: Café de Flore: Mémoire d'un siècle. Indigo & Côté, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-907883-66-6 .

See also

• Café de la Paix
• Les Deux Magots

Web links

Commons : Café de Flore  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Café de Flore in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Café's website (French, English, Spanish, Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "James Baldwin's Paris," New York Times report . (Registration required)

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 15 "  N , 2 ° 19 ′ 57.5"  E