French lilac Garden Cafe

The lilac Garden Cafe (la closerie des lilas), opened in 1847 at 171st Avenue Montparnasse in Paris, is a remote cafe that was just a caf é for college students in the 19th century. But later, after reconstruction, equipped with large floor-to-ceiling windows, with a garden and fountain, the appearance has been much more luxurious.

Now the periphery of the lilac Garden Cafe is surrounded by a layer of tall green plants, and if you are not careful, you will miss its entrance. This is very different from the transparent style of other cafes in Paris. However, clove cafes also have exclusive pleasures that cannot be enjoyed elsewhere. Guests can either sit behind the glass window and enjoy the beauty of the garden, or they can choose to eat in the garden. There is also a small stage in the middle of the garden, where famous theatrical actors often dine and improvise. Celebrities at that time, such as Gouape and Pomponette, were both diners and performers.

When it comes to the long guest list of the lilac Garden Cafe, Hemingway and Hadley must not be ignored. You might ask, who is Hadley? It is true that this common name has not made a slight change in history, but if I say that she was once "Mrs. Hemingway", you may suddenly realize that she was the first wife of the literary giant Hemingway.

Hemingway, who was in Paris from 1921 to 1926, was young, poor, hungry (not just an appetite), and, like all arrogant young writers, quit his well-paid job as a writer. He writes in the lilac Garden Cafe every day and borrows books on credit from Shakespeare Bookstore. Hemingway is eager to have his own place in Paris, where celebrities from all walks of life gather, but the reality is always far from satisfactory. In fact, in the first few years in Paris, an inheritance from Hadley, the first wife, was the only source of their lives.

In a corner of the lilac Garden Cafe, there is still a "Hemingway's chair"-Hemingway's name is engraved on the bronze medal on the back of the chair. It took him two weeks to finish "the Sun still rises" here. The cafe also has a signature dish called Hemingway Pepper Steak, which is said to be a must for Americans to try when traveling in Paris.

In addition, the writer Zola, the painter Cezanne and Picasso all stopped here, and even Lenin liked the lilac garden. When the Gonggur brothers, the head of the largest publishing house in France, founded the most respected Gonggul Prize for Literature in France, all the ideas and purposes were drafted here.

The vicissitudes of the floating world and Lawton melted in a cup of coffee on the streets of Paris.