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St-Germain, Latin and Luxembourg Quarters : Literary Haunts

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1. La Palette

This café has been patronized by the likes of Henry Miller Apollinaire and Jacques Prévert.
2. Les Deux Magots

This was home to the literary and artistic élite of Paris as well as a regular haunt of Surrealists such as François Mauriac.
3. Café de Flore

Guillaume Apollinaire founded his literary magazine, Les Soirées de Paris , here in 1912.
4. Le Procope

The oldest café in Paris, this was a meeting place for writers such as Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac and Zola.
5. Brasserie Lipp

Ernest Hemingway pays homage to this café in A Moveable Feast . It was also visited by Symbolist novelist André Gide.
6. Hotel Pont Royal

Henry Miller drank here at the time of writing his Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer .
7. Shakespeare and Co

This bookshop has played host to many celebrated writers including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gide and Stein.
8. Le Sélect

F Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote were among many American writers who drank in this café-restaurant.
9. La Coupole

Opened in 1927, this former coal depot was transformed by artists into a lavish, Art Deco brasserie. It attracted such luminaries as Louis Aragon and François Sagan.
10. Le Petit St-Benoît

Camus, de Beauvoir and James Joyce are among the many writers who once took their daily coffee here.