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Closerie des Lilas
Closerie des Lilas Review
Now a pricey bar-restaurant, the Closerie remains a staple of all literary tours of Paris. Commemorative plaques are bolted to the bar as if they were still saving seats for their former clientele—an impressive list of literati including Zola, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Beckett, and, of course, Hemingway. (Hemingway wrote pages of The Sun Also Rises here; he lived around the corner at 115 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs.) Although the lilacs that graced the garden are gone—they once shaded such habitués as Ingres, Whistler, and Cézanne—the terrace still opens onto a garden wall of luxuriant foliage. There is live music in the piano bar.
- Address: 171 bd. du Montparnasse, Montparnasse, Paris, 75006 | Map It
- Phone: 01--40--51--34--50
- Metro Vavin; RER: Port Royal.
- Location: Montparnasse
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