Top 10 Literary Haunts
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1. La Palette
This café has been patronized by the likes of Henry Miller Apollinaire and Jacques Prévert.
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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.
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3. Café de Flore
Guillaume Apollinaire founded his literary magazine, Les Soirées de Paris , here in 1912.
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4. Le Procope
The oldest café in Paris, this was a meeting place for writers such as Voltaire, Hugo, Balzac and Zola.
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5. Brasserie Lipp
Ernest Hemingway pays homage to this café in A Moveable Feast . It was also visited by Symbolist novelist André Gide.
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6. Hotel Pont Royal
Henry Miller drank here at the time of writing his Tropic of Capricorn and Tropic of Cancer .
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7. Shakespeare and Co
This bookshop has played host to many celebrated writers including Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Gide and Stein.
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8. Le Sélect
F Scott Fitzgerald and Truman Capote were among many American writers who drank in this café-restaurant.
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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.
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10. Le Petit St-Benoît
Camus, de Beauvoir and James Joyce are among the many writers who once took their daily coffee here.
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