Cafe where the Tour de France was dreamed up

pdstsp
pdstsp Posts: 1,264
edited December 2009 in The bottom bracket
Sorry about this - I'm being lazy and relying on the wealth of knowledge on this site. I'm off to Paris for the weekend with wife and eldest daughter. Hoping to have a beer in the cafe where the TdF was dreamed up and can't find the name in my wealth of books - can anyone help please? Will buy a small beer for the first correct answer, but may have drunk it before you can claim it.

Paul

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  • deptfordmarmoset
    deptfordmarmoset Posts: 3,118
    Don't know where it was dreamt up but it started au Réveil-Matin in Montgeron, just south of Paris.
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    Looking for a cycling buddy?
  • ynyswen24
    ynyswen24 Posts: 703
    According to "The Yellow Jersey Companion to the Tour de France", edited by Les Woodland there was ameeting at the offices of L'auto on Rue de Fauborg, Montmarte where no decision was made so Desgrange and Levefre went "up the street" to the Taverne Zimmer.
    Hope this helps, I recall reading somewhere that the name of the place has now changed and it's somekind of French Weatherspoons style chain pub with a bike hanging up on the wall inside but hopefully still worth having a look for ( I would ).
    Didn't the Au Reveil Matin burn down a couple of years ago?
  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    Cheers guys - Its ynyswen's place I'm looking for so will raise a glass if I find it - have to be a swift one though because I have two "we want to go shopping" girls with me.

    Paul
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    I believe it's on boulevard de Montmartre - I just read the passage in the book that ynyswen24 mentioned yesterday - bizaare coincidence!
  • Echo et les Boniments
    Echo et les Boniments Posts: 142
    I believe the place you're looking for is now some kind of Tex Mex'n' burger restaurant and called 'le Friday's'. Pretty close to the Grands Boulevards metro station and pretty drab food if you ask me.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Did you find it??
  • disgruntledgoat
    disgruntledgoat Posts: 8,957
    Wasn't it a kebab shop in 2003, when the centenery tour was launched there and then burn down pretty shortly afterwards?
    "In many ways, my story was that of a raging, Christ-like figure who hauled himself off the cross, looked up at the Romans with blood in his eyes and said 'My turn, sock cookers'"

    @gietvangent
  • pdstsp
    pdstsp Posts: 1,264
    Whatever it was I never made it! Doesn't sound as if I missed much from the various descriptions. Thanks a bunch anyway everyone.

    Paul

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