Caf de Flore

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Café de Flore

• Shelley Brown
• Library 500
• shelleyj_at_interchange.ubc.ca

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Café de Flore, 172 Boulevard St-Germain75006
Paris

• Cafes are a great place to think.
• You can read a book,
• or you can watch people go by.

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More reasons why I like cafes

• Most of all, I like cafes because theyre a
  useful place to think about BIG LIFE QUESTIONS,
  like
• What on earth will I do with a B.A. in English?

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Who am I? What am I doing here?

• There I was, sitting in the Café de Flore, trying
  to figure out my lifes path, when I suddenly
  realized that the life of a librarian was right
  for me.

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It all seems so logical now
Books are cool!

• I love to read,
• I have loved the library ever since I was a
  little girl.
• I was even a member of the library club at
  school,

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Café de Flore

• Ah, alone in Paris, and sitting in the haunt of
  Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Could
  life could get any better than it already was?

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I had already

• walked along the river Seine,
• visited the boquinistes,
• and heard a cellist play J.S. Bachs Suite for
  Solo Cello in G major in the Place des Vosges

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Life is Sweet

• After seeing all these wonderful things, I felt
  pretty happy,
• but I was happier still because I knew I had
  picked something better than yet another
  soul-sucking, horrible, low-paying job.

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I was going to be a librarian!
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A Few Last Words

• The pictures on the title slide and following two
  slides are from www.cafe-de-flore.com.
• The photographs on slides 4, 5, 7, and the top
  half of 8 are property of the author.

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Merci de votre visite
Thank you for your visit