Париждің "Екі Магот" кафесі

Café in the 6th arrondissement of Paris

Les Deux Magots (le dø maɡo) is a famous café and restaurant situated at 6, Place Saint Germain des Prés in Paris' 6th arrondissement, France. It once had a reputation as the rendezvous of the literary and intellectual elite of the city. It is now a popular tourist destination. Its historical reputation is derived from the patronage of Surrealist artists, intellectuals to the likes of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre, as well as young writers, such as Ernest Hemingway. Other patrons included Albert Camus, Pablo Picasso, James Joyce, Bertolt Brecht, Julia Child and the American writers James Baldwin, Chester Himes and Richard Wright. The Deux Magots literary prize (Prix des Deux Magots) has been awarded to a French novel every year since 1933 at Les Deux Magots.

"Magot" literally means "stocky figurine from the Far East". The name originally belonged to a fabric and novelty shop at nearby 23 Rue de Buci. The shop sold silk lingerie and took its name from a popular play of the moment (19th century) entitled Les Deux Magots de la Chine. Its two statues represent Chinese "mandarins", or "magicians" (or "alchemists"), who gaze out over the room. In 1873, the business moved to its current location in the Place Saint Germain des Prés. In 1884, the business changed to a café and liquoriste, but kept the name. Auguste Boulay bought the business in 1914, when it was on the brink of bankruptcy, for 400,000 francs. Auguste Boulay's son added glass walls to allow more light into the café. The statues remained the same since the store opened (they were not replaced by copies). A café Les Deux Magots opened in Tokyo in 1989. Catherine Mathivat, great great granddaughter of Auguste Boulay, started to work in the café in 1993, and took over when her father died in 2012. In 2022, the Saint Germain café alone made a revenue of 15 million euros. Les Deux Magots is referenced in patron James Joyce's Finnegans Wake on page 562.

A café with a similar name (Café Deux Magots) is seen in the fictional town of Morioh, Japan in Diamond is Unbreakable, the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.

1959 color photograph by Saul Leiter. 1967 figurative painting by Jean François Debord.

Several scenes in the 1949 movie The Man on the Eiffel Tower take place here. The café features in Jean Eustache's 1973 film The Mother and the Whore. The café features in the 2011 film The Intouchables, in a scene in which Philippe (François Cluzet) and Driss (Omar Sy) stop there after a wee hours stroll along the Seine, meant to ease Philippe's suffering in the middle of the night.

The café features in a scene in the final episode of NBC sitcom The Good Place. The café is shown while filmed in a week long tour in Paris of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson during June, 2011.

The café features centrally as the main location of the tale told in the song “A Rose Is A Rose” by singer Poe, with many of the café‘s more famous clientele name checked in the lyrics, each enraptured with the enigmatic Jezebel.

Cocoa from Les Deux Magots is featured heavily in The Amelia Project.