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Restaurant Rougeot, vers 1970 © Charles Harbutt

La Joconde, 1977 © Michel Maiofiss

“Dovima with Sacha, Cloche and Suit by Balenciaga, Café des Deux Magots, Paris, August, 1955” © Richard Avedon, in “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000,” at I.C.P.

Saint Germain des Près, 1953 © Edouard Boubat

Môme Bijou au bar de La Lune, Montmartre, Paris, vers 1930-1932 © Halasz Gyula Brassaï

Café de Flore, Saint Germain des Prés, 1947 © Robert Doisneau

Rue de la Verrerie, Paris, 1932 © René Jacques

Café de France, L’Isle sur la Sorgue, 1979 © Willy Ronis

Café de France, L’Isle sur la Sorgue, 1979 © Willy Ronis

Paris Café, Paris, France, 1936 © W. Robert Moore

Soir de Noël, Ile Saint Louis, Paris, 1951 © Louis Stettner

Le café curieux, Robert Doisneau

Jacques Prévert © Robert Doisneau

Paris café, 1925 © Maurice-Louis Branger / Roger-Viollet

Robert Giraud, 1950 © Robert Doisneau

Robert Giraud, Rue de la Roquette, Paris, 1953 © Robert Doisneau

Monsieur Alcide et son chien Balzac © Robert Doisneau

Jean-Paul Sartre au café de Flore, Paris, 1945 © Gyula Halasz Brassaï

Café Les Deux Magots, Paris, 1959 © Saul Leiter

Lovers © Gyula Halasz Brassaï 1932
Somewhere amid clouds of smoke and alcoholic fumes, artists, painters, poets, writers and thinkers discuss and remake the world, finding their inspiration in the Parisian bistros, turning them into their headquarters.
“Bacchus never said what was in his blood. He hated reading wine labels.” – Jacques Prévert, Gravures sur le zinc
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