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Since the nineteenth century, La Closerie des Lilas at 171 Boulevard du Montparnasse has been a gathering place for the artistic and literary elite of Paris. The roll-call of former regulars reads like a syllabus of French and American letters: Verlaine, Baudelaire and Mallarme, and later Hemingway, who wrote part of The Sun Also Rises at its tables, with small brass plaques still marking the favoured seats of its famous patrons. The interior is a beauty in its own right, with mosaic floor til...

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