"You're sitting under the green marquee with lettering the color of Midas' fingertips surrounded on all sides by the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and James Joyce. Immense in their world as whales in a pond, they assembled at Les Deux Magots seeking inspiration and applause from the spirited (and spirit-aided) knockdown debates and the bohemian atmosphere that flooded the cafe."
"Listen closely and you can hear Hemingway stage whispering his poetry, and see him working feverishly on The Sun Also Rises, stained with the blood and smoke of the Great War's trenches. A few feet away and liquored up on Swiss wine, James Joyce is picking a fight (then hiding behind Hemingway's bulk) while Pablo Picasso is hitting on his future muse Dora Maar there."
Early 20th-century Paris around Boulevard Saint-Germain centered on cafés such as Les Deux Magots, where figures like Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, and James Joyce gathered for debate, work, and socializing. The cafés combined bohemian atmosphere, spirited debates, and everyday Parisian life, feeding artistic movements including Surrealism. The Exposition Universelle shaped Parisian urban design and introduced designs that influenced public furniture. The bistro chair emerged from that milieu and from Exposition-driven industrial production, becoming a durable, lightweight, and iconic fixture across cafés, bistros, and restaurants throughout France.
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