Café de Flore

This is perhaps the most famous café in the world, still fighting to maintain a Left Bank aura despite hordes of visitors from around the world. Jean-Paul Sartre -- the granddaddy of existentialism, a key figure in the Resistance, and a renowned café-sitter -- often came here during World War II. Wearing a leather jacket and beret, he sat and wrote his trilogy Les Chemins de la Liberté (The Roads to Freedom). Camus, Picasso, and Apollinaire also frequented the Flore. The café is still going strong, although the existentialists have been replaced by tourists and sometimes even fashionistas such as Karl Lagerfeld.

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