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manningkrull in weirdhistory

Café de L'Enfer

Apr 03, 2008 19:12

If I had a date and a time machine, I'd take her and it to le Café de L'Enfer.

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madcowsexiness April 4 2008, 02:01:36 UTC

Ugh. Like I needed another reason to want a time machine. The picture of the cop walking in front of it is wonderful and hilarious.

djtseliot13 April 4 2008, 02:35:53 UTC

So. Amazing. You win the internet for today.

It reminds me of Rodin's Gates of Hell come to life and bar-ified.

prisbatty April 4 2008, 06:11:19 UTC

Fabulous
good to learn something new today

gantar April 4 2008, 09:30:31 UTC

Utterly amazing. And yeah, I also wish this place still existed.

L'Enfer et Le Ciel anonymous January 10 2009, 05:51:05 UTC

Well, this is probably not active anymore (no postings since April) but I found this other photo (http://www.parisenimages.fr/fr/popup-photo.html?photo=14358-2) on the site, ParisEnImages (cool site for Paris or B&W photo freaks--like me). The facade is somewhat different and seems to have added a "penthouse"--smile. The address is 53 boulevard de Clichy. Sadly, a Google map search reveals that a Monoprix now stands where both L'Enfer and Le Ciel were. Go to Street View and you can compare the buildings on either side of the Monoprix with the old photo--there are still some remnants (the corbels on the right side building and the windows of the left side building). Yeah, I get a bit obsessive about stuff like this--love old architecture. I've been fascinated with L'Enfer ever since I had a Paris calendar of old B&W photos that included the gendarme photo above--wanted to try to find it, as well.