La Cigale in Nantes

Friday, 9 October 2020 - 11:00 am (CET/MEZ) Berlin | Author/Destination:
Category/Kategorie: General
Reading Time:  2 minutes

© Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0

© Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0

La Cigale is a brasserie located in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France, on the same city square as the Théâtre Graslin. The locale has been classified as a historic monument since 1964.

The restaurant was designed by the architect/ceramicist Émile Libaudière in the exaggerated Art Nouveau style of the era. On 1 April 1895, the brasserie was opened for business by its first owner, Mrs. Calado.

© Velvet/cc-by-sa-3.0 © Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0 © Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0 © Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0 © Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0 © Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0
<
>
© Selbymay/cc-by-sa-3.0
From the beginning the restaurant attracted a bourgeois clientele that mixed with artists from the nearby theater. The surrealists Jacques Prévert and André Breton were regular patrons. Scenes from several films have been shot there, including Jacques Demy‘s 1961 film Lola, Debout les crabes, la mer monte! by Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan (1983), and Jacquot de Nantes by Agnès Varda (1991).

In 1964, the brasserie was turned into a fast-food restaurant, but the decor remained unchanged due to the protections afforded by its status as a historical monument. During the 1970s the restaurant was neglected and eventually abandoned, until a new owner turned it back into a brasserie in 1982.

Read more on La Cigale and Wikipedia La Cigale (Smart Traveler App by U.S. Department of State - Weather report by weather.com - Global Passport Power Rank - Travel Risk Map - Democracy Index - GDP according to IMF, UN, and World Bank - Global Competitiveness Report - Corruption Perceptions Index - Press Freedom Index - World Justice Project - Rule of Law Index - UN Human Development Index - Global Peace Index - Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index). Photos by Wikimedia Commons. If you have a suggestion, critique, review or comment to this blog entry, we are looking forward to receive your e-mail at comment@wingsch.net. Please name the headline of the blog post to which your e-mail refers to in the subject line.




Recommended posts:

Share this post: (Please note data protection regulations before using buttons)

Seville Cathedral

Seville Cathedral

[caption id="attachment_217646" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Ingo Mehling/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Spanish: Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Ca...

[ read more ]

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

[caption id="attachment_213614" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Institute of Systematic Botany © Diego Delso/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (also referred to as LMU or the University of...

[ read more ]

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF

[caption id="attachment_24726" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Building of WSL Institute for Snow and Avalange Research SLF in Davos Dorf © Capricorn4049/cc-by-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche R...

[ read more ]

The Imperial College London

The Imperial College London

[caption id="attachment_4572" align="aligncenter" width="435" caption="Imperial College London - Royal School of Mines © Pyrope"][/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Imperial College London (officially The Imperial College of Science, Technolo...

[ read more ]

Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria

Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria

[caption id="attachment_161040" align="aligncenter" width="590"] Max-Josefs-Platz © Rufus46[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The independent city of Rosenheim is located in the centre of the district of Rosenheim (Upper Bavaria), and is als...

[ read more ]

Challenge Bibendum

Challenge Bibendum

[caption id="attachment_2609" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="© Michelin Challenge Bibendum"][/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Michelin Challenge Bibendum is a major annual sustainable mobility event, sponsored by the French ti...

[ read more ]

Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service in Berlin

Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service in Berlin

[caption id="attachment_200601" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Fridolin freudenfett/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Klaus Kinkel Center for Intelligence, also known as the Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Servi...

[ read more ]

Island of Gorée

Island of Gorée

[caption id="attachment_212435" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Inextre/cc-by-sa-3.0-es[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]Île de Gorée is one of the 19 communes d'arrondissement (i.e. districts) of the city of Dakar, Senegal. It is an 1...

[ read more ]

The European Library

The European Library

[caption id="attachment_201415" align="aligncenter" width="399"] © The European Library[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The European Library is an Internet service that allows access to the resources of 49 European national libraries and a...

[ read more ]

Pride Month

Pride Month

[caption id="attachment_235765" align="aligncenter" width="590"] 2018 San Francisco Pride Parade down Market Street © Samuel Wantman/cc-by-sa-4.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]LGBT Pride Month is a month, typically June, dedicated to cel...

[ read more ]

TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles

TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles

[caption id="attachment_164786" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © sailko/cc-by-sa-3-0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]TCL Chinese Theatre is a cinema palace on the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood i...

[ read more ]

The International Congress Centrum Berlin

The International Congress Centrum Berlin

[caption id="attachment_26499" align="aligncenter" width="590"] © Avantique/cc-by-sa-3.0[/caption][responsivevoice_button voice="UK English Female" buttontext="Listen to this Post"]The Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin (ICC Berlin), located in the Westend locality of the Berlin borough of Cha...

[ read more ]

Return to TopReturn to Top