1930 - The Café de Flore was in vogue (1930-1939)
Intellectuals, painters, publishers, film makers met there and "recognized" each other...

In the 30's, Pascal, the waiter-philosopher, who was nicknamed Descartes by Albert Camus, served Trotsky or Chou En Laï. It was then the turn of the literary men to rush up at the Café. Léon-Paul Fargue spent there an hour or two each day, Raymond Queneau conversed with Michel Leiris. Geogres Bataille, Roger Vitrac, Robert Desnos sat at a table near the one of Thierry Maulnier, who was sometimes joined by Robert Brasillach. Inevitably, the publishers settled there their lookout post: Bernard Grasset, Robert Denoël, eugène et Charles Fasquelle. Some of the Montparnasse survivors willingly stayed there, like Derain, the Giacometti brothers, Zadkine or even Picasso with Christian et Yvonne Zervos. The painter Yves Tanguy induced Leo Mallet to go there, and the latter wrote after the war "La nuit de Saint-Germain-Des-Prés" (Saint-Germain-Des-Prés' nights). Then, filmmakers adopted this Café: Marcel Carné, Yves Allégret encountered actors like Serge Reggiani, Jean Villar, Arthur Adamov. The "Prevert's Band" besieged the place, filling sometimes the three quarters of the Café. This Band was in fact "The October Group". Jacques Prévert, Pierre Prévert, Jean-Louis Barrault, Raymond Bussières, Roger Blin, Marcel Duhamel, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Guy Decombe, Paul Frankeur, Yves Deniaud, Paul Grimault, Fabien Loris, Sylvia Bataille, Maurice Baquet, Max Morise and the little Mouloudji.

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