Two Nest eggs

the Two Nest eggs is a Café of Paris of the district of Saint-Germain-of-Meadows.

Origin of the name

The name of the Coffee " Both Magots" – i.e., " two figurines chinoises" – the sign of a fabric store originates in which occupied formerly the same site, 6, Place Saint-Germain-of-Meadows.

History

Towards 1885, the fabric store left the place to a coffee spirit merchant, with the same sign. Verlaine, Rimbaud and Mallarmé, inter alia, then took the practice to meet there. The Coffee the Two Nest eggs always played a big role in the cultural life of Paris. In 1933, the creation of the Price of the Two Nest eggs mark its literary vocation. Attended by many famous artists among which Elsa Triplet, Andre Gide, Jean Giraudoux, Picasso, Fernand Leger, Prévert, Hemingway, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, to quote only them, it accommodated the surrealist ones under the aegis of André Breton, well before the existentialists who grew dark beautiful of the cellars of the district. Today the world of arts and the literature there côtoie also that of the mode and the policy.

See too

External bond

Official site of the Two Nest eggs

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