Word: caf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best boulevardier style, his jauntiness cramped only by a sprained ankle. Before leaving Independence, explained Truman, "I was getting some bags down the stairs and stumbled. But it was 7 o'clock in the morning, so nobody can accuse me of anything." He sipped coffee at the Café de la Paix, a favorite hangout for Artillery Captain Truman during leaves in World War I. After his short stop in Paris, he headed by train for Rome. Rolling through northern Italy, Democrat Truman grinned wryly at big regional election posters urging, "Vote Republican!" Boisterously cheered with many a "Viva...
...contrasting pictures, Country Dance and City Dance. Toulouse-Lautrec's drawing of her, Gueule de Bois (The Hangover), so attracted Van Gogh that he wrote his brother, eagerly inquiring: "Has De Lautrec finished his picture of the woman leaning on her elbows on a little table in a caf...
When Sartre came back from a German prison camp in 1941, they settled down in an unheated Left Bank Paris hotel, made the heated Café de Flore and the Deux Magots their workrooms, talked and wrote and wrote and talked until French existentialism was born. With limited assists from Philosophers Kierkegaard and Heidegger, Sartre and de Beauvoir decided that life had no purpose, no meaning except what each man could find for himself in his own existence. To the young, hungry intellectuals of a shamed and broken country, existentialism seemed a revelation. Overnight Sartre became its high priest, Simone...
...such celebrated patrons as Authors Guy de Maupassant and Emile Zola, Composer Jules Massenet and Ballet Impresario Sergei Diaghilev who created the Paris legend: "Sit long enough in the Café de la Paix and you will see everyone worth seeing." During World War II, the restaurant served General De Gaulle his first meal in liberated Paris. In 1945, after it had stalled the Germans' best efforts to turn it into an officers' club, the Café de la Paix was about to be commandeered for U.S. officers when a worldly U.S. colonel put his foot down. "Requisition...
Around the Corner, Pam-Pam. But for the Café de la Paix. the end of World War II nearly proved disastrous. As prices skyrocketed, the carriage trade moved on to less expensive places; Frenchmen still crowded the chestnut-shaded sidewalk tables, but they dawdled longer over aperitifs or coffee, and U.S. tourists were warned off by the high prices noted in guidebooks. The Café de la Paix might have toppled like a French Cabinet had it not been for energetic Paul Chapotin, 41, son-in-law of the restaurant's second-generation owner, 74-year-old Andr...