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The café is the site of an important event in China Miéville's novella The Last Days of New Paris (2016). [citation needed] Lolita, chapter 5, part 1. A Moveable Feast, chapter 8 by Ernest Hemingway. Lorna Goodison, At Lunch in Les Deux Magots, in Oracabessa [8] Les Deux Magots is referred to in patron James Joyce's Finnegans Wake on page 562.
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]
The cafés of Paris are no longer part of her intellectual life, but they are certainly the chief feature of her streets; on pavements hardly wide enough for a honeymoon couple to walk on, a flimsy chair and an oak-grained tin table will defend against all-comers the right of every good Frenchman to enjoy upon the very streets of the loved city ...
The Latin quarter's cafés include Les Deux Magots, Café de Flore, le Procope, and the Brasserie Lipp, as well as many bookstores and publishing houses. In the 1940s and 1950s, it was the centre of the existentialist movement (associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir).
18th-century perfume-burner in the form of a magot Two Chinese figurines called magots, inside the café Les Deux Magots in Paris Look up magot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A magot is a seated oriental figurine, usually of porcelain or ivory .
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 ...
Magot (figurine), a type of figurine which the Les Deux Magots café in Paris is named after; People with the name. Ajak Magot (born 1992), ...
Janet Flanner (March 13, 1892 – November 7, 1978) was an American writer and pioneering narrative journalist [4] who served as the Paris correspondent of The New Yorker magazine from 1925 until she retired in 1975. [5]