Le Grand Café
 | This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages)
|
"Le Grand jus" | |
 The ground floor room of Le Grand Café in April 2017 | |
 | |
| 46°33′52″N 3°19′51″E / 46.56444°N 3.33083°E | |
| Location | 49 Place d'Allier, Moulins, Allier, France, 03000 |
|---|---|
| Designer | Louis Galfione |
| Type | Café, Brasserie |
| Beginning date | 1898 |
| Opening date | 1899 |
| Website | legrandcafe-moulins |
| 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.
Photos gallery
[edit]-
Façade of the Grand Café from the place de l'Allier (Allier Square) -
The ground floor room seen from the mezzanine -
Play of mirrors -
Ceiling painting from Auguste Sauroy showing the Gambrinus legend
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c "Grand Café". Base Mérimée. Retrieved 18 August 2024.
Further reading
[edit]
- "Le Grand Café, un "incontournable", à Moulins" [The Grand Café, a "must-see", in Moulins]. La Montagne (in French). 23 July 2024.
Partially translated from the French Wikipedia article.
 | This article about a French building or structure is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |