Coffee book recommendation: Paris travel guide "Paris Cafe"

Walking through the cities of China, you can also see a wide range of cafes. Here, you can occasionally see adults doing business with laptops and students doing their homework here. However, people here are more likely to relax and chat. However, in this book, the Paris Cafe, it makes people feel different from the Chinese cafe: politicians talk about national affairs here, writers and artists work here. The cafe in Paris is not only a place for leisure parties, but also full of rich literary flavor and unexpected splendor. It should be said that this is a rare Paris humanities book. It can take you to trace the footprints of history, understand the past Parisian customs, and appreciate the romantic temperament of Paris cafes.

The Cafe de Paris contains a total of 24 articles with pictures and texts, which are divided into two parts. Recorded in the previous part are those literary cafes that enjoy a high reputation in the history of Paris. We can see that these cafes have left famous figures in history, such as Voltaire, Hugo, Chagall, musician Debussy, poet Apolinel and so on. In the special environment of the cafe, they have created many well-known works, which have been widely circulated so far to illuminate people's way forward. Although most of these cafes no longer have the literary and artistic scene of that year, they have carefully preserved some objects used by celebrities at that time, and the marble table used by Voltaire at that time, so that people still feel that the thinkers meditated for a long time and then wrote a book. Although many literary cafes in Paris now exist in name only, the shrewdness of the shopkeepers can still make people enjoy the literary and artistic flavor far away.

The author of the second part of the book "Paris Cafe of Literature and Art" uses vivid stories to tell about those literary cafes that were once brilliant in history but are no longer seen today. For example, the literary cafe, which ranked first in Paris in the 19th century, was once the most valued place for celebrities in Paris literary and art circles. Writer Balzac, musician Berlioz and painter Kulbe are all regulars here. However, it was born in 1837 and closed on October 14, 1859 after 22 years of operation. On the night of closing Zhang, more than 60 people gathered here for a farewell banquet. Although the cafe has been closed for more than 150 years, it is like a group of brilliant fireworks that has left people thinking for a long time. In the article "British Cafe", the author introduces the cafe, which was founded in 1802. This is not only a place frequented by famous writers Tolstoy, Merimee and Dumas, but also a place loved by some famous politicians. For example, Bismarck, who served as German prime minister, Pun Calais, who was president of France, and even Li Hongzhang, the envoy of the Qing Dynasty, have tasted coffee and delicacies here. At a time when the cafe was booming, the Russian writer Dostoevsky regarded it as a "temple of hell" and thought it would be "struck by thunderbolt". A few years later, in 1913, Dostoevsky's prophecy was fulfilled, and the famous cafe finally came to an end. This kind of historical story is interesting to read and makes people feel a lot!

The Cafe de Paris also comes with a large number of color pictures. Let people get an intuitive impression while appreciating the beautiful articles; at the end of each article, the routes and opening hours of those famous literary cafes are attached. There is no doubt that it can be used as a guide for people to travel to Paris, so that people can have a close experience of the literary style of the Paris Cafe!

(Paris Literature and Art Cafe, Yang Qi, Zhejiang University Press, 2016)