Le Dome Cafe
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From the beginning of the 1900s, Le Dôme Café (also Café Du Dôme, also Cafe Du Dome) 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.
[edit] Address
109 bd. Montparnasse, Paris, France
Closest Métro: Vavin
[edit] Famous Clientelle
- Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924)
- 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 Hemmingway (1899 – 1961)
- Charles Gordon Boggs (1921 - ) (also where he met his wife) [5]
- Kadinsky
[edit] Literature
- Elliot Paul's, The Mysterious Mickey Finn: or Murder at the Cafe Du Dome (1939)
- Ernest Hemmingway's, With Pascin at the Dôme, in A Moveable Feast.
- Paris, lyrics by Édith Piaf [6]
