Le Procope Café

Le Procope, Paris’ first and most famous café (1686), was a café célèbre, drawing notables such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Balzac, Zola, Robespierre, Hugo, and Americans: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and now me. Admittedly, I did not go in because it was crowded and I was on my way to dinner.Read more