Restaurant in Paris, France
Le Select is a Parisian brasserie founded in 1923 in the 6th arrondissement at 99 Boulevard Montparnasse , in the Notre-Dame-des-Champs neighborhood. It was one of the more prominent meeting places of the Parisian intellectuals between the two world wars, with a significant place in the Bohemian Culture of the period.[1] [2]
History
Along with Le Dôme , La Rotonde , Closerie des Lilas and La Coupole , Le Select was one of the cafés for artists and intellectuals that animated the life of Montparnasse, particularly around the Vavin crossroads, which is now the Pablo Picasso plaza.
Scott Fitzgerald , Ernest Hemingway , Picasso , and Agnès Capri [fr ] were regulars.[1]
During the Nazi Occupation , prominent homosexual figures from the artistic milieu such as Serge Lifar, Jean Marais , Suzy Solidor , Marlow Moss ,[3] and Antoinette Hendrika Nijhoff-Wind frequented it regularly, as well as places like Le Monocle ,[4] Chez Jane Stick,[5] and Le Bœuf sur le toit .[6]
Following the Second World War, the cafe was still frequented by what remained of the Jewish School of Paris , including Isaac Frenkel , Mane-Katz and others artists.[7]
References
^ a b Martin, Mackenzie. "Le Select" . W&L Paris . Retrieved 2023-11-06 .
^ Billancourt, Le Village de (2022-10-22). "Le Select, restaurant chic des années folles" . Le Village de Billancourt (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-06 .
^ Les deux amies dans: 'Pionnières. Artistes dans le Paris des années folles', Paris, 2022 (page 123)
^ Le Monocle, du Montmartre des années 1920 au Montparnasse des années 1940 .
^ "Chez Jane Stick" . Bibliothèque nationale de France .
^ François Broche et Jean-François Muracciole , Histoire de la collaboration : 1940-1945 , Tallandier, 2017.
^ Kilnger, H (10 October 1958). "איוף דער טעראס אין "סעלעקט", On the terrace in Select".