Beverage Companies of France - Coffee Houses of France, Caf de La Rotonde, Caf de La Paix, Les Deux Magots, Caf de Flore, Muslim Up (Paperback)

Chapters: Coffee Houses of France, Caf de La Rotonde, Caf de La Paix, Les Deux Magots, Caf de Flore, Muslim Up. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Caf de la Rotonde is a famous caf in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France. Located on the Carrefour Vavin, at the corner of Boulevard du Montparnasse and Boulevard Raspail, it was founded by Victor Libion in 1910. Along with Le Dome and La Coupole it was one of the popular gathering spots for notable artists and writers during the interwar period. Frequented by Pablo Picasso, who had a studio nearby, in 1914, when the English painter Nina Hamnett arrived in Montparnasse, on her first evening the smiling man at the next table at La Rotonde graciously introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew". They became good friends, Hamnett later recounting how she once borrowed a jersey and corduroy trousers from Amedeo Modigliani, then went to La Rotonde and danced in the street all night. During this creative era, proprietor Libion allowed starving artists to sit in his caf for hours, nursing a ten-centime cup of coffee and looked the other way when they broke the ends from a baguette in the bread basket. If an impoverished painter couldn't pay their bill, Libion would often accept a drawing, holding it until the artist could pay. As such, there were times when the caf's walls were littered with a collection of artworks, that today would make the curators of the world's greatest museums drool with envy. La Rotonde continues in operation to this day and is a popular nostalgia spot for tourists. Life in the cafe was depicted by several of the artists that frequented the cafe, including Diego Rivera, Federico Cant, and Tsuguharu Foujita, who depicted a fight in the cafe in his etching "A la...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17791511