Le Dôme Café () or Café du Dôme is a restaurant in

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that first opened in . Based on the example established by La Closerie des Lilas (created in 1847) and followed by

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(created in 1911), Le Select (created in 1925), and La Coupole (created in 1927), Le Dôme was renowned as an intellectual gathering place for artists and writers during the interwar period. Le Dôme created and disseminated gossip and provided message exchanges and an 'over the table' market that dealt in artistic and literary futures. It was frequented by painters, sculptors, writers, poets, models, art connoisseurs and dealers. Le Dôme later became the gathering place of the American literary colony and became a focal point for artists residing in Paris's

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. A poor artist used to be able to get a

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and a plate of

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for $1. Today, it is a top fish restaurant (the ''

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'' once gave it one star), with a comfortably old-fashioned decor. The food writer

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said, "I could dine at Le Dôme once a week, feasting on platters of briny oysters and their incomparable sole meunière."

Address

108 bd. Montparnasse, Paris, 75014
Closest Métro: Vavin

Dômiers

The term Dômiers was coined to refer to the international group of visual, and literary artists who gathered at the Café du Dôme, including: *

Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His literary and theatrical work features bleak, impersonal and tragicomic expe ...

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Henri Cartier-Bresson Henri Cartier-Bresson (; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as cap ...

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Constant Detré Constant Detré (Szilárd Eduard Diettmann, 2 January 1891 – 10 April 1945) was a Hungarian artist. He settled in Paris where he mixed from 1920 to 1940 with representatives of the School of Paris and other Montparnasse artists, several of who ...

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(1891–1976) * Leonor Fini (1907–1996) * Ernesto de Fiori (1884–1945) *

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(1886–1968) *

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(1862–1927) *

Khalil Gibran Gibran Khalil Gibran ( ar, جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان, , , or , ; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced ), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist ...

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, ''The Mysterious Mickey Finn: or Murder at the Cafe Du Dome'' (1939) *

: references members of the Parisien literary scene meeting at the Dôme in

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(1926); ''

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'' (1926) and ''With Pascin at the Dôme'' in ''

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'' (1964) * "Paris", lyrics by

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's magical retirement frequenting Du Domesacred-texts.co
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, ''She Came to Stay'' (1943) *

Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (, ; ; 21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and litera ...

, ''The Age of Reason'' (1947) *

, ''Abaddon el Exterminador'' (1976) * Anaïs Nin, ''Delta of Venus'' (1977) *

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, ''The Razor's Edge'' (1944)

References

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