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Le Grand Café

Coordinates: 46°33′52″N 3°19′51″E / 46.56444°N 3.33083°E / 46.56444; 3.33083
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Le Grand Café
"Le Grand jus"
The ground floor room of Le Grand Café in April 2017
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46°33′52″N 3°19′51″E / 46.56444°N 3.33083°E / 46.56444; 3.33083
Location49 Place d'Allier,
Moulins, Allier,
France, 03000
DesignerLouis Galfione
TypeCafé, Brasserie
Beginning date1898
Opening date1899
Websitelegrandcafe-moulins.fr
Monument historique since 1978

Le Grand Café is a café and brasserie in Moulins in the French department of Allier, located at 49, place d'Allier, in the town centre. Considered one of the most beautiful cafés in France,[1] it was created in 1898. Its interior architecture and façade are characteristic of the Rococo Revival style of the early 1900s.[1][2] The main room is decorated with large wall mirrors, stucco pilasters with garlands of foliage, ironwork, various light fixtures including a large bronze chandelier, a ceiling with an allegorical fresco, a glass roof and some wall paintings.[2] Le Grand Café was listed as an official historical monument in February 1978.[2]

The Grand Café was frequented by Coco Chanel (who may have sung there, since at this time Le Grand Café was also a café-chantant) and Georges Simenon during their youths. In his novel Maigret Goes Home, a chapter is set in Le Grand Café but the 1959 movie Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre based on the book and directed by Jean Delannoy with Jean Gabin playing Maigret was not shot in the actual café but in interiors constructed in a Paris film studio. The 2008 television movie Coco Chanel had scenes shot in the Grand Café.

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References

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  1. ^ a b Hell-Girod, Ginette (1995). L'Esprit des brasseries [The Spirit of Brasseries] (in French). Paris: éditions du Chêne. pp. 118–120. ISBN 2-85108-877-7.
  2. ^ a b c "Grand Café". Base Mérimée. Retrieved 18 August 2024.

Further reading

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Partially translated from the French Wikipedia article.