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| Jeune fille avec un cafe grande creme |
Parisian cafés serve as a center of social
and culinary life in Paris. They have been around since the 17th century, and
serve as the meeting place, neighborhood hub, conversation matrix, rendez-vous
spot, and networking source, a place to relax or to refuel - the social and
political pulse of the city. Parisian cafés show the Parisian way of sitting
undisturbed for a couple of hours, watching things happening and people going
by.
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| Le Dome 1920s |
Typical Paris cafés are not coffee shops. They generally
come with a complete kitchen offering a restaurant menu with meals for any time
of the day, a full bar and even a wine selection. Among the drinks customarily
served are the "grande crème" (large cup of white coffee), wine by
the glass, beer ("un demi", half a pint, or "une pression",
a glass of draught beer), "un pastis" (made with aniseed flavour
spirit), and "un espresso" (a small cup of black coffee). Drinking at
the bar is cheaper than doing so at one of the tables.[1] The café sometimes
doubles as a "bureau de tabac", a tobacco shop that sells a wide
variety of merchandise, including metro tickets and prepaid phone cards.
Some of the most recognizable Paris cafés include Café de la
Paix, Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore, Café de la Rotonde, La Coupole,
Fouquet's, Le Deauville, as well as a new wave represented by Café Beaubourg
and Drugstore Publicis. The oldest still in operation is the Café Procope,
which opened in 1686.
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| 1922 |
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| 1930s |
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| Luftwaffe Officers, 1941 |
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