Location of the Restaurant : Paris 18e Arrdt - 75018 - Paris - 75 - Ile-de-France
More than 100 years the Wepler brewery celebrated its hundred years in 1992. Crossing more than one century, Wepler is essential from now on like the pilot place of the history of a district, that of the cabarets, artists, of this Bohemian so typically Parisian. Of simple pub at the XIXe century, it became coffee restoring with room of billiards, then large coffee proposing spectacles or th3es dansant. Wepler was the daily appointment of the great figures which marked the art of the XXe century: of Picasso, Utrillo with Modigliani, of Apollinaire, Henry Miller in Truffaut or Chabrol With the passing of years, Wepler knew to evolve/move, change, be modernized, while keeping this strong identity characteristic of the Parisian breweries. THE WEPLER: of yesterday and today With the number 14 of the famous Clichy place, Wepler, Alsatian keeper of a bar, bought in 1810 a tavern of notching. Thus was born the Wepler coffee With the passing of years, thanks to its incomparable seafood bench, the coffee becomes a restaurant, true gastronomical appointment, of high flight, for the amateurs. Oysters, shells, crabs, all these exquisite specialities circle in the hands of the most famous oyster sellers of Paris before arriving as by enchantment on the table of the enlightened gourmets of the Capital Very quickly, thanks to the proximity of Montmartre and the presence of many workshops of artists, the brewery is a point of famous rallying of the great writers and painters of the district: Picasso, Apollinaire, Toulouse-Lautrec, Marie Laurencin, Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo, Francis Carco, Roland Dorgelès and Modigliani! All are found there The window of the coffee is not it elected by Bonnard to appear in its table the Clichy Place? Cordial, luxurious, alive, the atmosphere of Wepler lends itself magnificiently to imaginary cinematographic. It attracts great names of the cinema, as testify to it to the photographs fixed on the wall, which evoke the old decoration that Bertrand Blier filmed in Préparez your handkerchiefs. Without forgetting Truffaut, which turned there the scenes of the Four hundred blows. As regards writers, the animated spectacle of the passers by, sensual animation which reign on the place, fascinate. Since 1928, Henry Miller in fact her preferred reference mark. I sat down there with the terrace and inside, by all times and at every hour of the day and the night. It was for me an open book. All the faces of the boys, the managers, the cashiers, the whores, the customers and even of the ladies of wash-hand basins are engraved in my memory as the images of a book which I would have laminated every day. Quiet days in Clichy. Through the creation of the price Wepler-Foundation the Post office, founded with Marie-Rose Guarniéri (bookshop of the Abbesses), and the foundation the Post office, Michel Bessière thus joins again today quite naturally with this cultural effervescence that Wepler always knew. Of does the foot of the hillock Montmartre, it take care from now on with intelligence and elegance with the destinies of the prestigious brewery, that his/her father, Charles, wire of peasant of Blooms, had acquired in 1976, being registered with talent in the daring filiation of the café owners rouergats to the conquest of the capital |
