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Alphonse Daudet opens Fromont and Risler with "A wedding-party at the Cafe Vefour." Later, the salon windows still gleam "like the chandeliers at a wedding feast," so the restaurant becomes a chamber where celebration survives as painful recollection. (gutenberg.org) Daudet chooses Véfour for its prestige: a grand Paris room where bourgeois display, social ambition, and emotional aftertaste are instantly legible. That interpretive point is inferred from the novel and the restaurant's standing in Parisian dining history. (gutenberg.org)