Café De La Paix, Paris

Café de la Paix is a famous café in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was designed by Charles Garnier, the architect of Paris Opéra (located across the plaza). Legend has it that if one sits at the café, one is bound to run into a friend or acquaintance as the bar is so well-known and popular. Cafe was opened June 30, 1862 as a cafe and a restaurant of the hotel with similar name which later was renamed to Grand Hotel, serviced visitors of Expo exhibition in 1867. Proximity to Palais Garnier attracted a lot of famous men. Some visitors of cafe was Jules Massenet, Émile Zola, Guy de Maupassant. In 1986 at Cafe was being arranged a showing. In years of "Belle Époque" some visitors was Sergei Diaghilev, Prince of Wales, future King of the United Kingdom Edward VII at alias.