Small estate of the Lilacs
the Small estate of the Lilacs is a coffee, Restaurant, Brasserie, located on the Boulevard of Montparnasse, in the 6th district of Paris.
The " Closerie" in the historical quarters of Montparnasse
With the Dome, the Rotunda, Select, the Cupola and the Ox on the roof , the Closerie of the Lilacs is one of the coffees of artists and intellectuals who animated, sometimes as of the French revolution, the life of the Quartier of Montparnasse, around in particular of the crossroads Vavin, current Place Pablo-Picasso.
History of the " Closerie"
Created in 1847, the Closerie of the Lilacs is in the beginning a relay of station on the road of Fontainebleau.
As of the end of the XIXème century, it becomes a famous guinguette, go artists of all horizons. One meets there Zola, Cézanne, Théophile Gautier and the brothers Jules and Edmond de Goncourt.
At the beginning of the XXème century, succeeding Paul Verlaine, other accustomed of the place, Paul Fort comes there to dispute parts of failures with Lénine and to meet with his/her friends men of letters, Guillaume Apollinaire or Alfred Jarry.
The painters of the Boat wash-house as Edmond-Marie Poullain also attend celebrates it establishment. The " Tuesday of Closerie" becomes a famous intellectual appointment.
The Closerie whose night life passed in the legend becomes one of the high places of American intelligentsia: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Miller… makes the reputation of Montparnasse. It is with the terrace of the Closerie that Fitzgerald makes read the manuscript of Gatsby Splendid the in Hemingway.
Amedeo Modigliani, Strong Paul, André Breton, Aragon, Kees Van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andre Gide, Paul Eluard, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Man Ray, Ezra Pound or more recently Jean-Edern Hallier also attended the " Closerie" .
Since 2006, the jury of the Prix of the incorrect book meets, at the beginning of each year, with the Closerie of the Lilacs , perpetuating the artistic and literary tradition the famous one restoring.
Renaud speaks in praise of this famous Parisian bar in its song With Closed the , drawn from its album Rouge Blood, coffee which he attended during his depression and where he met his current wife Romane Serda.
External bond
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Site of the Small estate of the Lilacs
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