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The restaurant was created in 1896 by two brothers, Frédéric and Camille Chartier, in a building resembling a railway station concourse. The long Belle Époque dining room has a high ceiling supported by large columns which allows for a mezzanine, where service is also provided. It opened with the name "Le Bouillon" (lit.
The La Coupole Dance Hall, in the basement, opened on December 24, 1928 and is where musicians performed. Filiberto Rico's Rico's Créole Band (1910-1976) was the main orchestra of La Coupole, playing rumba , bolero , guaracha , samba and other baião until the 1960s.
The station design was the inspiration for the larger Penn Station in New York City when Alexander Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, traveled on his annual trip to Europe in 1901. The new railway line extension opened in 1900, linking Gare d'Austerlitz and Gare d'Orsay. The station opened to passenger traffic on 28 May 1900. [1] [2]
Pet policy: One pet weighing less than 12kg allowed per room at Lutetia Paris, €50 (£43.37) extra per night. Check-in/check-out: 3pm check-in, 12pm check-out. Family friendly?
Since 1926, the Paris-Vierzon line was electrified to 1500 V, so no more steam engines entered Austerlitz. It was the first station in Paris to no longer receive a steam train. In 1939, the Gare d'Orsay saw its function limited to suburban traffic, and the Gare d'Austerlitz once again became a terminus station for the main lines.
Life in the cafe was depicted by several of the artists and writers that frequented the cafe, including Diego Rivera, Federico Cantú, Ilya Ehrenburg, and Tsuguharu Foujita, who depicted a fight in the cafe in his etching A la Rotonde of 1925. A later 1927 version, Le Café de la Rotonde, was part of the Tableaux de Paris of 1929. [8]
The café was bought by Jean Louis Hilbert between the two wars and took the name La Palette in 1950. [1] The establishment has two rooms: the tiny bar room, and the larger back room (which used to be a billiard hall [2]) that is adorned with ceramics of the 1930–40s and numerous paintings.
In 1689, the Comédie-Française opened its doors in a theatre across the street from his café – hence the street's modern name. [11] By this stroke of fortune, the café attracted many actors, writers, musicians, poets, philosophers, revolutionaries, statesmen, scientists, dramatists, stage artists, playwrights, and literary critics.