Café de la Régence

The Café de la Régence in Paris was an important European centre of chess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess masters of the time played there.

The famous chess match between Howard Staunton and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, on 16 December 1843, by Jean-Henri Marlet

The Café's masters included, but are not limited to:

Addresses

It was opened as the Café de la Place du Palais-Royal near the Palais-Royal, Paris in 1681. By the 18th century it was known as the Café de la Régence ("Regency Café"). In 1852 the café moved temporarily to hôtel Dodun, 21 Rue de Richelieu. In 1854 the Café de la Régence moved to 161 Rue Saint-Honoré and remained there until it became a restaurant in 1910. The chess players moved to the café de l'Univers in 1916 and the Office national marocain du tourisme (National Moroccan Tourist Office) took over the site in 1918.

Additional information

Fictional depiction of the great chess masters of the time gathering to play at the café, Antti Favén, 1902–1913

Biography

  • Metzner, Paul: Crescendo of the Virtuoso, 1998.
  • Ken Whyld: Chess Christmas. Moravian Chess, Olomouc 2006. ISBN 80-7189-559-8. S. 311 - 321

Notes

  1. XVIIIème siècle by Jean Goldzink
  2. Marx, Karl; Engels, Friedrich (1964-01-01). The Communist Manifesto. Pantheon Books.
  3. 2002, Metropoli Oy / Jeremias Ylirotu / www.metropoli.fi /. "Ainolan ensimmäiset vuodet 1904-1908". www.sibelius.fi. Retrieved 2016-05-11.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. Prideaux, Sue: Edvard Munch - Behind The Scream. Yale University Press, 2005, p27

References

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