Le Dome Cafe
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From the beginning of the 1900s, Le Dôme Café (or Café Du Dôme) was renowned as an intellectual gathering place. It was widely known as the "the Anglo-American cafe."
Opening in 1898, it was the first such cafe in Montparnasse, Paris. It "created and disseminated gossip, and provided message exchanges and an "over the table" market that dealt in artistic and literary futures."[1]
It was frequented by the famous (and soon to be famous) painters, sculptors, writers, poets, models, art connoisseurs and dealers.
Le Dôme Café later became the gathering place of the American Literary Colony and became a focal point for artists residing in Paris' Left Bank.
A poor artist used to be able to get a Saucisse de Toulouse (sausage) and a plate of mashed potatoes for $1. Today, it is a top fish restaurant (Michelin gives it one 
star), with a comfortably old-fashioned decor. The sausage is gone and so is its price, dinner for two costs $100.[2] "Dômiers" became a coined term to refer to the international group of artists and writers who gathered at the Café du Dôme.
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[edit] Address
109 bd. Montparnasse, Paris, France Closest Métro: Vavin
[edit] Famous clientelle
- Henry Miller (1891 – 1980)
- Anaïs Nin (1903 - 1977)
- Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924)
- Aleister Crowley (1875 – 1947)
- Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973)
- Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 – 1931)
- Youssef Howayek (1883 – 1962)
- Chaim Soutine (1893 – 1943)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884 – 1920)[3]
- Sinclair Lewis (1885 – 1951)[4]
- Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972)
- Pascin (1885 – 1930)
- Tsuguharu Foujita (1886 – 1968)
- Man Ray (1890 – 1976)
- Max Ernst (1891 – 1976)
- Moise Kisling (1891 – 1953)
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
- Charles Gordon Boggs (b. 1921) (also where he met his wife)[5]
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866 – 1944
- Robert Capa (1913 - 1954)
- Gerda Taro (1910 - 1937)
[edit] Literature
- Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
- Elliot Paul's, The Mysterious Mickey Finn: or Murder at the Cafe Du Dome (1939)
- Ernest Hemingway's, With Pascin at the Dôme, in A Moveable Feast
- "Paris", lyrics by Édith Piaf
- Aleister Crowley's magical retirement frequenting Du Dome[6]
[edit] References
- ^ artistmarkking.com memories of Paris
- ^ Friedrich, Otto, Time (May. 21, 1990). The Great Cafes of Paris.
- ^ Royal Academy of Arts Summer 2006: Naked ambition, Modigliani
- ^ washburn.edu Day Seven
- ^ unhooked.com Charles Gordon Boggs: My Life
- ^ sacred-texts.com John St. John, The Record of the Magical Retirement of G. H. Frater, O.'. M.'.
