“The only decent café in our neighborhood was La Closerie des Lilas, and it was one of the best cafes in Paris. It was warm in the winter and the terrace was lovely in the spring and fall,”
Hemingway – A Moveable feast
It was also the hang-out for : Verlaine, Apollinaire, Man Ray, Baudelaire, Cezanne, Modigliani, Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola, André Gide, Miller, Fitzgerald, André Breton, Aragon, Picasso, Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide, Paul Eluard, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Man Ray, Lénine, Paul Fort ...