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Les Deux Magots The "Deux Magots" inside the café. 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.
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), ...
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 .
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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]
Later, in 1936, in the brasserie Les Deux Magots in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés neighbourhood of Paris, Dora Maar and Picasso, who were both artists and engaged in left-wing activities, were introduced by a mutual friend, Paul Eluard. Picasso, who was then 55 years old, fell in love with the 29-year-old Maar and the couple soon began living ...
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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).