Café Scientifique was first organised by Duncan Dallas in Leeds in 1998, but is based on the Café Philosophique movement which the philosopher Marc Sautet (1947-1998) started in France in 1992.
Sautet was a former Trotskyist who however edited two books on the German philosopher and philologist Friedrich Nietzsche.
The first of these were created by Marc Sautet in Paris, and by the late 1990s they numbered in the hundreds.
Marc Jacobs | Marc Chagall | Marc Anthony | Marc Ribot | Marc Almond | Marc Nelson | Marc Bolan | Jean-Marc Lofficier | Marc Cohn | Marc Connelly | Franz Marc | Marc Lavoine | Marc Garneau | Marc Quinn | Marc Newson | Marc Lazar | Marc Isambard Brunel | Marc Allégret | MARC Train | Marc Forster | Marc Blitzstein | Marc Bamuthi Joseph | Marc Augé | Marc-Antoine Charpentier | Marc | Marc Mellits | Marc LeBlanc | Marc Kudisch | Marc Ducret | Marc Daubert |