Les Deux Magots

Les Deux Magots
The "Deux Magots" inside the café

Les Deux Magots (French pronunciation: [le maɡo]) is a famous café and restaurant situated at 6, Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris' 6th arrondissement, France.[1] It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual elite of the city. It is now a popular tourist destination. Its historical reputation is derived from the patronage of Surrealist artists, intellectuals to the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, as well as young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway.[2] Other patrons included Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Bertolt Brecht, Julia Child and the American writers James Baldwin, Chester Himes and Richard Wright.[3]

The Deux Magots literary prize (Prix des Deux Magots) has been awarded to a French novel every year since 1933 at Les Deux Magots.

  1. ^ "Bidding goodbye to the Gauloises". 1 February 2007 – via news.bbc.co.uk.
  2. ^ Hemingway in Paris
  3. ^ "Historical cafes in Paris: Les Deux Magots". Archived from the original on 22 March 2013.

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