A history of cafés (en français)
Pretty soon I will quit reading Le Monde and get some fresh air, but I just found this, too. http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3230,36-797756,0.html
It's a Paricentric history of cafés. Although I am a big fan of café culture, and its varied pleasures: Café-crème and a croissant first thing in the morning (when I manage to get out early enough), an espresso around 11:00, a tea on a rainy afternoon, a kir when you're done working and ready for a relaxed evening ... the major criteria of cafés for me are proximity to whatever I'm doing; and likely-looking-ness. That is to say, rarely do I go out of my way to find a historic café, and places like Les Deux Magots seem awfully too-too for just hanging out.
I went to Le Sélect a couple of times in the Fall. Though it was fun to see a slice of Parisian professo-literary life (lots of scribbling in manuscripts with fountain pens, especially toward the back), it's not quite my scene.
It's a Paricentric history of cafés. Although I am a big fan of café culture, and its varied pleasures: Café-crème and a croissant first thing in the morning (when I manage to get out early enough), an espresso around 11:00, a tea on a rainy afternoon, a kir when you're done working and ready for a relaxed evening ... the major criteria of cafés for me are proximity to whatever I'm doing; and likely-looking-ness. That is to say, rarely do I go out of my way to find a historic café, and places like Les Deux Magots seem awfully too-too for just hanging out.
I went to Le Sélect a couple of times in the Fall. Though it was fun to see a slice of Parisian professo-literary life (lots of scribbling in manuscripts with fountain pens, especially toward the back), it's not quite my scene.
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