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Les Deux Magots (French pronunciation: [le dø maɡo]) is a famous café and restaurant situated at 6, Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris' 6th arrondissement, France. [1] It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual elite of the city.
Hardellet was greatly affected by this pronouncement, and died the following year. The year of Hardellet's death was somewhat ironically crowned as his literary pinnacle, when he was awarded (posthumously) the 1974 Prix des Deux Magots for his collected poems, Les Chasseurs deux (The Two Hunters).
The name derives from the extant Parisian café "Les Deux Magots", which began as a drapery store in 1813, taking its name from a popular play of the time, The Two Magots (a magot is a type of Chinese figurine). It housed a wine merchant in the 19th century, and was refurbished in 1914 into a café. [1]
Christian Bobin (24 April 1951 – 24 November 2022) [1] was a French author and poet.. Bobin received the 1993 Prix des Deux Magots for the book Le Très-Bas (translated into English in 1997 by Michael Kohn and published under two titles: The Secret of Francis of Assisi: A Meditation and The Very Lowly).
Prix des Deux Magots: award 1933 Les Deux Magots: France: Q640922: ... annual award to the publisher of a children's book translated into English and published in the ...
Georges Pillement (23 March 1898 – 14 April 1984) was a French writer, translator and photographer. He was born in Mayet in the Loire region. He won the Prix des Deux Magots for his novel Plaisir d'amour in 1937.
Prix des Deux Magots (1949) Christian Rene Marcel Coffinet (12 July 1923 – 18 May 2011) was a French journalist, novelist, and screenwriter. He was the winner of the prix des Deux Magots in 1949.
In his essay "A Tale of Two Cafes" and his book Paris to the Moon, American writer Adam Gopnik mused over the possible explanations of why the Flore had become, by the late 1990s, much more fashionable and popular than Les Deux Magots, despite the fact that the latter café was associated with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus ...