The Origin of the artistic Cafe

Paris at the beginning of the 20th century was an artistic era and the center of world art. The cafes on Avenue Montparnasse and Avenue Saint-Germain reached unprecedented prosperity at the beginning of the 20th century. They were holy places and spiritual homes in the minds of writers and artists all over the world.

Picasso, Zola, Van Gogh, Freud have woven their dreams here, spent their youth. Chagall developed his Cubist paintings there, Joyce developed his stream of consciousness theory there, and poor painters and writers from different countries who were not yet famous would chat from morning to night in warm cafes, and they influenced each other. Ideas and passions often collided with brilliant artistic sparks to create extraordinary works of art.

The Lilac Cafe on Montparnasse Street was frequented by American writers such as Henry Miller and Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's usual chair remains there today, with his name engraved on the bronze plate on the back. Cloves Cafe has a specialty called Hemingway Pepper Steak. Many American tourists visit Paris without fail

The Café de la Flora opposite the Church of Saint Germain has become the main studio of existentialism since the 1940s. Sartre and Simone Beauvoir almost regard it as their own home. When the smoke filled Paris in World War II, they still wrote here. Brisvion once said that if there were no cafes, there would be no Sartre. This is an interesting annotation to existentialism. The Café de la Flora next door is the main gathering place of surrealism painting school. Sartre and Camus and others often meet here. In 1980, Sartre, a literary star, died. The Sartre literary circle in the Left Bank Cafe gradually dissipated its light and became a place for later people to remember.