a long walk for two cafés with significant history

One of the evenings in Paris, Mom and Melissa accompanied me in the search of two cafés: Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore. 

I promise, the people were not staged. It's just the Parisian way of sitting at cafés: side-by-side facing the street, watching people pass by.

I heard about these two places while studying French and English literature in college, and had wanted to visit them ever since. It took us a little while to find them, and though we were all very weary from walking, I was glad we had made the effort. Both places are expensive, so we didn't go in, but I took my pictures with quiet satisfaction and marveled at how these two little places were frequented by the leading philosophers and writers of the 20th century--people who forever shaped/warped the worldview of millions of others. 

Any guesses to whom I may be referring?

No? 

Then just read the street sign.

Existentialism is so dark and depressing, but I think eavesdropping on conversation between Sartre and Beauvoir would have been fascinating.

You know who else drank at these two cafés? 

Here's a hint: he drank a lot exorbitantly at both.

He's an author.

He's known for writing short simple sentences.

He led a very depressed life.

He went through four wives.

He committed suicide.

Answer: Ernest Hemingway. 

These two famous cafés are in the Latin Quarter, which is probably my favorite section of Paris. It is here that restaurants overflow into streets and take over old cobblestone alleys. 

It is here where philosophers, writers, and painters, who are still studied today, lived and worked.