The Parisian Café

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The Parisian café has had a singular, timeless, seductive appeal since the nineteenth century. 'The Parisian Café: A Literary Companion' takes a whimsical look at the Parisian café as seen through the eyes of authors and artists over the past two centuries. Featuring a wide range of renowned women such as Guillaume, Apollinaire, Albert Camus, Lawrence Ferlinghem, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, this collection provides the reader with a swift and colourful impression of the rich and varied appearance that the Parisian café has made in literature and the arts. Drawing upon such diverse media as painting, photography, line drawing and engraving, this work includes some of the most influential artists of the last two centuries including Brassai, Andre Kerész, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh and many others.