Café de Flore

The Café de Flore, in Paris

The Café de Flore is one of the most famous cafés of Paris, a literary institution of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Paris audio-guided tour stops here to evoke this mythical address, a high place of the intellectual and artistic life of the capital.

The mythical café of the writers

Founded at the end of the nineteenth century, the Café de Flore is one of the most famous institutions of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. With its recognisable façade, its leather benches and its mirrors, it was, in the twentieth century, the den of great writers, philosophers and artists, among whom Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, who had their habits there. A witness of the intellectual effervescence of the post-war period, it remains an emblematic place of Parisian literary life, where you still come today to have a coffee in an atmosphere laden with history.

What to see

You admire the recognisable façade, the leather benches and the mirrors of this mythical café, the den of writers and philosophers like Sartre and Beauvoir, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Café de Flore is a high place of the literary life of Paris. It is a stop laden with history, to be explored on foot.

Practical information

The Café de Flore lies in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, on the left bank, in Paris, reachable on foot and by public transport. You admire its façade from the street; the establishment follows its own hours, which vary. It is best to enquire and to anticipate the crowds, the place being much frequented.

Why is the Café de Flore famous?

Because it was the den of great writers, philosophers and artists of the twentieth century, like Sartre and Beauvoir, and it remains a literary institution of Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

Where is the Café de Flore?

In the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, on the left bank, in Paris, in France.