| Paris café is not just a place where one
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| | across Paris in search for a better
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| comes to drink a cup of coffee. In fact,
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| | place. Picasso was the first to choose
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| one doesn't actually come there - the
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| | the place, and he was followed by
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| word "come" presupposes a short-time
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| | Chagall, Vlamink, Kandinsky, Leger and
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| action. People drop in at a café to go
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| | Gijom Apolliner.
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| on living… The story began at times
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| | There was always hot soup, coal, and warm
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| when Paris was not such a well-appointed
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| | stoves. The atmosphere was free and easy,
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| city. In 1920th people came to a café to
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| | although there were some rules: the
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| warm themselves attracted by warm stoves.
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| | ladies were not allowed to take their
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| They sat there infinitely with a single
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| | hats off and to smoke. On the other hand,
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| cup of coffee and a book, sketchbook and
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| | they were allowed to dance on the tables.
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| a pencil or in a company of a good friend
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| | Haim Sutin painted his best works at the
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| or a beloved. Little by little formed
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| | cafe (at that time they cost a cup of
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| small companies of habitués, many of
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| | coffee, nowadays they are sold for
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| whom went down in history. Some due to
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| | millions of dollars). Modigliani painted
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| their indisputable talents and some due
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| | portraits of all the habitués of La
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| to the fact of their acquaintance with a
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| | Rotonde. His portraits cost nothing to
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| genius.
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| | friends and hot dinner of a shot of vodka
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| French café is organized like a theater.
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| | for the other visitors of the café. Jean
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| The tables are turned towards the street,
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| | Cocteau distributed poems, making fun of
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| in summer they are placed right at the
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| | the snobs, which were destined to enter
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| pavement. Each of the Paris cafes has its
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| | the history…
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| own history and can boast of its own
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| | When Paris welcomed "Russian seasons",
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| visitors. But one of them has more
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| | legendary Dyagilev and Nizhinsky came to
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| reasons to be proud of its history than
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| | La Rotonda to order music to young
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| the others. This is the legendary La
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| | composers (Debussy, Prokofiev,
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| Rotonde, located at Montparnasse, 105.
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| | Stravinsky, Milhaud, Satie). Young poets
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| Nowadays it is a luxury restaurant, and
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| | Max Voloshin, Anna Akhmatova and Vladimir
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| there's no bitter, hungry and smoky
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| | Mayakovsky were also frequent guests of
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| atmosphere of bohemia there…it was over
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| | La Rotonde.
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| 90 years ago when this café opened its
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| | In 1903 Gabrielle Chanel sang there folk
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| doors to public. Nobody thought that it
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| | songs to the rapture of the audience.
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| is destined to become one of the most
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| | This is at La Rotonde, where she met her
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| famous places in Paris as well as in the
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| | rich sponsor with whom she would live at
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| whole Europe.
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| | aristocratic Vichi and become a fashion
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| At that time anise vodka cost 5 sous, a
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| | queen, a personification of style.
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| breakfast - 10 sous. Low prices attracted
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| | Between the two wars the café was
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| the Bohemia. Besides they got tired of
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| | favoured by the writers, such as
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| the Montmartre and started wondering
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| | Hemingway, Breton, Fitzgerald.
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