Rita Crane Photography: Paris / Historic cafe / restaurant / right bank / architecture / night / Le Souffle, Paris
On the right bank, near Place Vendome is this beautiful little place, with its classic and elegant facade. Monet the painter used to go to the Louvre to study the masters there, then go to Le Souffle for his noonday meal. It has most likely gotten gentrified a bit in the last few decades but still has an air of charm, and it's great to think one of my favorite painters used to come here regularly to get his meals. :o))) I love that cute little neon sign, which is a souffle'. Just priceless!
I just finished reading Jean Renoir's biography of his father where he explains that Monet and Renoir were room mates at one time, struggling to make it in a Paris that did not yet recognize their work as art. They ate a lot of lentils and beans during that era, he explains, and Monet would bring home a good bistro meal at least once a week, offered to him in a little cafe, and share it with Renoir. I wonder if that generous cafe that Jean Renoir doesn't mention by name, was in fact, the Souffle' ? I like to think that it was.
Rita Crane Photography: Paris / Historic cafe / restaurant / right bank / architecture / night / Le Souffle, Paris
On the right bank, near Place Vendome is this beautiful little place, with its classic and elegant facade. Monet the painter used to go to the Louvre to study the masters there, then go to Le Souffle for his noonday meal. It has most likely gotten gentrified a bit in the last few decades but still has an air of charm, and it's great to think one of my favorite painters used to come here regularly to get his meals. :o))) I love that cute little neon sign, which is a souffle'. Just priceless!
I just finished reading Jean Renoir's biography of his father where he explains that Monet and Renoir were room mates at one time, struggling to make it in a Paris that did not yet recognize their work as art. They ate a lot of lentils and beans during that era, he explains, and Monet would bring home a good bistro meal at least once a week, offered to him in a little cafe, and share it with Renoir. I wonder if that generous cafe that Jean Renoir doesn't mention by name, was in fact, the Souffle' ? I like to think that it was.