Café Momus

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](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18445/pg18445-images.html?utm_source=openai)) 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](https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/18445/pg18445-images.html?utm_source=openai))

19 Rue des Prêtres-Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 75001 Paris, France. ([fr.wikipedia.org](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9_Momus?utm_source=openai))