Café de la Rotonde
The Café de la Rotonde is a famous
Cultural History
La Rotonde was frequented by
In the early years, proprietor Libion allowed starving artists to sit in his café for hours, nursing a ten-centime cup of coffee and looked the other way when they broke the ends from a baguette in the bread basket. If an impoverished painter couldn't pay their bill, Libion would often accept a drawing, holding it until the artist could pay. As such, there were times when the café's walls were littered with a collection of artworks, which today might fill curators of the world's greatest museums with envy.[6] When Peggy Guggenheim moved to Paris in 1920, she increased the popularity of La Rotonde by moving herself and her entourage across the street from Le Dome because La Rotonde allowed women to smoke on the terrace and Le Dome did not.[7]
Life in the cafe was depicted by several of the artists and writers that frequented the cafe, including
Ernest Hemingway mentions La Rotonde[10] in Chapter VI of his novel The Sun Also Rises (1926) in this passage: “The taxi stopped in front of the Rotonde. No matter what café in Montparnasse you ask a taxi-driver to bring you to from the right bank of the river, they always take you to the Rotonde.”
Billy Klüver's 1997 book, A Day with Picasso, is based on a group of photographs taken at lunch on a sunny afternoon at Café de la Rotonde in 1916 by Jean Cocteau, of Pablo Picasso and Modigliani and friends; including André Salmon, Max Jacob and Pâquerette, a model for the designer Paul Poiret.
On 6 April 2023, the outside awning was set on fire by protestors during the pension reform strikes that caused minimal long-term damage. The cafe was chosen as it's considered to be one of President Emmanuel Macron's favourite cafes.[11][12]
References
- ^ "La Rotonde Montparnasse's web site (English)". Archived from the original on 2017-04-09. Retrieved 2017-04-24.
- ^ Café de la Rotonde By Alexis Kriegh
- ^ Café de la Rotonde By Alexis Kriegh
- ^ Mallalieu, Ben (August 10, 2002). "Art and illusion". The Guardian. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
- ^ Café de la Rotonde By Alexis Kriegh
- ^ Ehrenburg, Ilya. Liudi, gody, zhizn. Moscow: Text, 2005, pp. 142 ff (in Russian).
- ^ Peggy Guggenheim, Out of This Century, Confessions of an Art Addict, (Foreword by Gore Vidal, (Introduction by Alfred H. Barr Jr.), ANCHOR BOOKS, Doubleday & Company, Inc. Universe Books 1979, ISBN 0-385-17109-9
- ^ La vie et l'oeuvre de Leonard Tusguharu Foujita; Sylvie Buisson, Dominique Buisson, Tsugouharu Foujita; pg. 500, 545, 555, 597 – Published by ACR Edition, 1987
ISBN 2-86770-145-7, 978-2-86770-145-0
- ISBN 0911517553.
- ^ Hemingway in Paris
- ^ "France protests: La Rotonde bistro liked by Macron attacked". BBC News. 2023-04-06. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
- ^ "Protesters start fire at one of Macron's favourite restaurants". 2023-04-06. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
Further reading
- ISBN 0-262-11228-0