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In Henry Murger's Bohemians of the Latin Quarter, the four friends "regularly frequented the Momus Cafe," where they monopolized the room, terrified ordinary customers with talk about art and politics, and sometimes "didn't pay their shot together." (gutenberg.org) Momus is the classic bohemian café: inexpensive, unruly, sociable, and half-comic in its precarious economics. Murger uses it as a stage for collective self-invention, and that literary afterlife helped immortalize the real address beside Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. The final clause is an inference from Murger's text and the café's documented history. (gutenberg.org)