Closerie des Lilas

**Text:** *A Moveable Feast* by Ernest Hemingway. > "one of the best cafés in Paris" For Hemingway, the Closerie des Lilas is a working café rather than a merely famous one. It belongs to the part of literary Paris where ambition is still hungry, pages are still being earned, and time at a table can be converted into sentences. Its role is crucially different from that of the more theatrical cafés. The Closerie suggests concentration, apprenticeship, and the dignity of routine. Writers choose it when they want to show literature not as glamour, but as labor performed in public.

171 Boulevard du Montparnasse, 75006 Paris, France