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Ibis Styles is a French budget hotel brand owned by Accor. [2] Created in 1980 in Australia with the name All Seasons, the brand was acquired by Accor in 1999 and renamed Ibis Styles in 2011. As of April 2023, Ibis Styles manages 642 hotels in 51 countries.
La Coupole is a famous brasserie in Montparnasse in Paris. It was opened on December 20, 1927 by Ernest Fraux and René Lafon during the Roaring Twenties when Montparnasse housed a large artistic and literary community – expatriates and members of the Lost Generation. They decorated the place in the contemporary art deco style.
The Paris region has four of the tallest twenty-five buildings in the European Union: the tour Link, the Tour First, the Tour Hekla, and the Tour Montparnasse. As of 2022, there are 23 skyscrapers that reach a roof height of at least 150 metres (490 ft). Most of the Paris region's high-rise buildings are located in three distinct areas:
A later 1927 version, Le Café de la Rotonde, was part of the Tableaux de Paris of 1929. [8] Picasso portrayed two diners in the cafe in his painting In the cafe de la Rotonde in 1901; as did the Russian artist Alexandre Jacovleff aka Alexander Yevgenievich Yakovlev in the similarly titled In the Cafe de la Rotonde.
The cafés at the centre of Montparnasse's night-life were in the Carrefour Vavin, now renamed Place Pablo-Picasso. In Montparnasse's heyday (from 1910 to 1920), the cafés Le Dôme , Closerie des Lilas , La Rotonde , Le Select , and La Coupole —all of which are still in business—were the places where starving artists could occupy a table ...
Le Select is a Parisian brasserie founded in 1923 in the 6th arrondissement at 99 Boulevard Montparnasse, in the Notre-Dame-des-Champs neighborhood. It was one of the more prominent meeting places of the Parisian intellectuals between the two world wars, with a significant place in the Bohemian Culture of the period.
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The Rue d'Alésia is a major street in the south of Paris, which runs along the entire east-west length of the 14th arrondissement. It is one of the few streets in Paris named after a French defeat, or more precisely, a Gallic defeat: the Battle of Alesia .