Café de Flore

Yes, certainly.

And so then you have cafés that are well-known today, like the De Margot, the Café de Flore, where certainly Sartre and Beauvoir and Camus gathered, but also in the 19th century, you had other authors like Balzac, Vittorio, gathering in the very same cafés.

Yeah.

Although Verlaine and Rimbaud did gather in the taverns and it was more the absinthe.

so many times.

The time that I went to go meet you at Café de Flore-

Mm-hmm

... um, I had FaceTimed him, and I was, like, walking there, really excited, and I probably hid, like, behind sunglasses afterwards.

See where Napoleon lived.

Um, you know, you gotta get Café de Flore, people love to get their coffee, and it's a great little walk, too.

But for me, I'm like, I...

The Ritz, if you go in and you wanna have breakfast there, I recommend getting breakfast, and kinda walk around.

And actually, two of them are right opposite to each other.

Les Deux Magots and Le Café de Flore in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district rivals for more than 100 years.

And it's a sort of sport for Parisians to choose one or the other.

A bit like picking your football team.

...

I remember going to Café Flore and thinking it was really sophisticated.

But it just, like, opened the world to me, 'cause I, I grew up in the c- country, in Napa Valley, so.

Well, you're not exactly country girl.

[laughs]

Yeah.

I love to go to Café Flore and just sit inside with all the, see the politicians.

I think it's the best.

No, I don't think so.

Yeah, we were able to, you know, I got to meet Suzy Sue at Cafe Flore in Paris and Robert Smith came and visited us on set.

And it was, yeah, it was just such an exciting time to be able to kind of be at Versailles and be able to invite people to visit and to get to shoot, shoot here with all our costumes and set dressing.

And to blend those two worlds.