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Philosopher’s bust, Procope café, Paris, februar 2009 (Co Jo Gatsby)
This pretty old statue is an element of the beautiful decoration of the well known french café restaurant “Le Procope“, in Paris, where one says that the ideas who gave birth to the american constitution found their source here, during talks between Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) and french philosopher Voltaire (16694-1778), whose books changed the face of Europe with “Les lumières“. University doctors say also that the concept of encyclopedia also went out of its walls!
Opened in 1686 by François Procope, an italian traveler who found in love with the parisian district of Saint-Germain before he became its owner, this building used to be a bathing center located just in front of the old “Comédie Française”, the royal theater company by this time. Francesco Procopio – his first italian name – created one of the most cosy and good-fashioned café of Paris where artists, intellectuals, writers like Racine, Montesquieu, La Fontaine, later on Diderot, Rousseau and Voltaire used to meet and have very crucial debates about the laws, the organisation of their royal society, education, democracy, before and after the french “revolution“.
The Procope is still today one of the more select places of the french headtown, receiving visits of celebrities coming from all over the world. It should be the ideal table for a real and fructuous meeting between french and american actual presidents, as far as Nicolas Sarkozy likes to talk about Voltaire and Barack Obama about Franklin!
Lots of importants events are happening into the Procope, whose fame is’n't to be “a great restaurant” but “a good restaurant“, use to explain Mr. Breuil, the new boss of this extraordinary table, where stands the annual delivering of the sick humour great prices, sponsored by Bouvet-Ladubay itself, won this year by André Stas (Belgium) with a book titled “Entre les Poires et les Faux Mages”, Mehdi Holtrop (Norway) with a press drawings book called “Plaisir” and Patrick Robine (France) with “La Ferme des Concombres”. “2009 is a very good grand cru”, said Mr Beyerm, writer and président of The Sick humour great prices. A must in american constitution’s cradle.
www.procope.com
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