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...greatest of these three great cafes, the Deux Magots, is the newest (1875), but it seems the most venerable and the most welcoming. If Lipp's wonders who you are, and the Flore wonders how much you've got, the Deux Magots wonders what you'd like to be served. Located just across from the old church, the Deux Magots derives its strange name from two large Chinese statues that sit high up in the center of the cafe. Prices today are appalling: a Coca-Cola costs $5, a Bloody Mary $10. But as one sits on the eastern terrace...
After the Germans smashed the Second Empire in 1870, a number of refugees from occupied Alsace fled to Paris. Among them was Leonard Lipp, who opened across the boulevard from the Flore a little brasserie ornamented with luxurious blue and green tropical birds on its tiled walls. Lipp's has long been famous for its choucroute (a.k.a. sauerkraut), and purists argue whether it deserves its reputation. But one outsider's view is that anyone who willingly orders choucroute deserves whatever he or she gets. The Alsatian plum tarts are much better. The main attraction, though, is the beer, which comes...
...other specialty of the house is politics. The National Assembly is just a few blocks down the boulevard, and when sessions run late, legislators traditionally repair to Lipp's for sustenance, discussion and intrigue. One of the regulars over the years has been Francois Mitterrand, now, of course, President of the Republic. Any cafe that can claim a President among its customers has little need of further endorsements...
Even back in the '40s, when prices were a lot lower, one went to Lipp's or the Flore only on special occasions. For hanging around, there were cheaper places, the Royal or the Bonaparte or the Mabillon. And though St. Germain is still full of wealthy and successful people, the artistic center seems to be moving back to the Right Bank, to the slummy area being rapidly gentrified between those two new cultural real estate projects, the flamboyantly ugly Beaubourg art museum and the unflamboyantly ugly Bastille Opera. "Try the Cafe Beaubourg," says one young American...
...School also provides the Low Income Protection Plan (LIPP) for graduates entering low-paying jobs. That program forgives or significantly reduces the debts of alumni in the public interest sector...