Paris is celebrated for its cafes, and Parisians are renowned for their fondness for cafe-sitting. Accordingly, our first stop was Cafe de Flore, a lovely establishment on the Boulevard Saint-Germain made famous by such artists and intellectuals as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, and Pablo Picasso, those who made Ernest Hemingway's Paris truly A Moveable Feast.
Directly across the boulevard is Brasserie Lipp, a favorite of these same thinkers and recently commemorated as such by Woody Allen in his 2011 rendition of Hemingway's Paris, Midnight in Paris (a film which, unabashedly, I have seen five times now).
Enjoying a bottle of Bourgogne, watching the Parisian world go by, and dreaming of that bygone era when the City of Lights was bursting at its artistic and intellectual seams was, as they say, tres chic.
Enjoying a bottle of Bourgogne, watching the Parisian world go by, and dreaming of that bygone era when the City of Lights was bursting at its artistic and intellectual seams was, as they say, tres chic.
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