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2 unusual facts about Les Deux Magots


Coffee culture

For example, Les Deux Magots in Paris, now a popular tourist attraction, was once associated with the intellectuals Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

Sarah Powell

Powell was a frequent visitor to such literary salons as Les Deux Magots and Le Flore, both of which lie on the Boulevard St. Germain and were regular haunts for Beauvoir and Sartre.



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Café de Flore

In his essay "A Tale of Two Cafes" and his book Paris to the Moon, American writer Adam Gopnik mused over the possible explanations of why the Flore had become, by the late 1990s, much more fashionable and popular than its rival, Les Deux Magots, despite the fact that the latter cafe was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and other famous thinkers of the 1940s and 1950s.