La Closerie des Lilas

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La Closerie des Lilas, 2011

La Closerie des Lilas is a historically and literarily relevant café, restaurant and brasserie with cocktail bar in the Montparnasse district in the 6th arrondissement of Paris , 171 Boulevard du Montparnasse.

The Closerie des Lilas was in the immediate vicinity of the Bal Bullier dance palace , which opened in 1847 and closed in 1940. After opening in 1883, it was a well-known meeting place for artists and writers under this name, similar to the Café de la Rotonde , Le Dôme , Café de Flore , Les Deux Magots , Le Select , La Coupole and the cabaret Le Lapin Agile , who like the Closerie des Lilas all still exist.

history

The first Closerie des Lilas

The former employee of the Bal de La Grande Chaumière , François Bullier (1796–1869), bought the Prado d'Ete in 1843 at 31, avenue de l'Observatoire in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. In 1847 he rebuilt the room, planted many lilac bushes and renamed it La Closerie des Lilas , which the establishment had already carried once (from 1804). On May 9, 1847, the opening of the dance hall, which then became known under the name of Bal Bullier .

The restaurant from 1883

Jules Cheret : Poster for a student ball in 1895, the Closerie des Lilas is named as the organizer

The neighboring Brasserie des Bal Bullier was a post office on the way from Paris to Fontainebleau ; In 1883 it was given the name La Closerie des Lilas (German roughly: "Fliederhof"). Here the visitors met before or after the dance in the Bal Bullier. It also became a popular meeting place for intellectuals and artists. In the 19th century, for example, Émile Zola and his friend Paul Cézanne , Paul Verlaine , Théophile Gautier and the brothers Jules and Edmond de Goncourt were among the visitors .

La Closerie des Lilas in 1909

The house above the restaurant was built in 1903. At the beginning of the 20th century, the poet Paul Fort chose the location for his meetings, which took place every Tuesday. His friends gathered there, discussed and exchanged poems. These included, for example, Guillaume Apollinaire and Alfred Jarry . Fort played chess games with the later revolutionary Lenin . The sculptor Brâncuși was also a visitor to the “Tuesday meetings”.

Marshal Ney's monument just across from the Closerie des Lilas

In 1910, the Cubists Robert Delaunay , Albert Gleizes , Fernand Léger , Henri Le Fauconnier and Jean Metzinger met here to develop a strategy that was directed against the hanging committee of the Salon des Indépendants .

In 1922, the Closerie was the place where a dispute between Tristan Tzara and André Breton marked the beginning of the end of Dadaism in Paris. It led to the creation of the surrealist movement . The establishment was mentioned in 1938 at the Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme in Paris in the section Les Plus belles rues de Paris (The most beautiful streets of Paris) under the name Porte des Lilas .

The bar of the Closerie des Lilas

The Closerie and La Rotonde achieved its greatest fame through visits by American writers of the " Lost Generation ", a term coined by Gertrude Stein . These included Ernest Hemingway , F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Henry Miller . Other visitors included artists and writers such as Amedeo Modigliani , Pablo Picasso , Kees van Dongen , Louis Aragon , André Gide , Man Ray and Paul Éluard . Their names are engraved on the tables. A place at the bar has a sign with Hemingway's name on it. He completed his first draft for his novel The Sun Also Rises (Eng .: Fiesta ) here in 1925 . At work, he often looked at the square opposite with the monument to Marshal Ney and mentioned it in his posthumously published memoirs A Moveable Feast (English: Paris - A festival for life ).

Other well-known personalities who were among the visitors were, for example, Jean-Paul Sartre , Françoise Sagan , Juliette Gréco , Gérard Philipe , Lauren Bacall , David Hockney , Mick Jagger , Paul Auster , Johnny Depp and Renaud , who was responsible for the Closerie des Lilas wrote the song à la Close .

The Closerie des Lilas with the rooms of the restaurant, the brasserie and the cocktail bar is still equipped with the decor of the 1920s.

Prix ​​de la Closerie des Lilas

On March 7, 2007, the literary award Prix ​​de la Closerie des Lilas was launched. It honors literature by French-speaking women authors published between January and March of each year.

literature

Web links

Commons : Closerie des Lilas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Bal Bullier paris1900.lartnouveau.com, accessed on November 25, 2013
  2. ↑ La closerie des lilas la chartreuse puis prado dété ou bal bullier ( Memento of November 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), archive.is, accessed on November 25, 2013
  3. ↑ La Closerie des Lilas (PDF; 9.2 MB), parisquartierlatin.fr, p. 429, accessed on November 18, 2013
  4. ↑ Ursula von Kardorff: Adieu Paris , p. 82
  5. ↑ Klaus von Beyme: Cultural Policy in Germany: From State Funding to Creative Industries , Springer VS, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-19402-8 , p. 222/223
  6. ↑ La Closerie des Lilas ( Memento of June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), patrimap.paris.fr, accessed on November 19, 2013
  7. ↑ Uwe M. Schneede in: Bernd Klüser, Katharina Hegewisch (ed.): The art of exhibition. A documentation of thirty exemplary art exhibitions of this century . Insel, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1991, ISBN 3-458-16203-8 , p. 96
  8. ↑ Les cafés mythiques. La Closerie des Lilas , routard.com, accessed October 18, 2013
  9. ^ Robert F. Burgess: A Café Crème at La Closerie , discoverfrance.net, accessed November 19, 2013
  10. ↑ Ernest Hemingway: Quotes , goodreads.com, accessed November 21, 2013
  11. ↑ Quoted from the Closerie des Lilas website
  12. ↑ La Closerie des Lilas , restaurant.michelin.fr, accessed on November 22, 2013
  13. ^ Prix ​​de la Closerie des Lilas

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 24.2 "  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 9.9"  E