<p>AT THE TABLE OF LE GRAND VÉFOUR  is a collection of private conversations of some of the giants of literature, art and music and politics at signal moments of their lives.  Sitting in the restaurant that has been a landmark dining establishment in Paris since 1784, Victor Hugo is told by his mistress of fifty years that she is dying. Friends  Baudelaire and Edouard  Manet, both slightly drunk on absinthe, come to Véfour  for lunch and nearly come to blows.  Colette is rescued from a fire in her apartment on Palais Royal, slightly up the street from the restaurant, by the proprietor/chef of Véfour, is carried to the safety of her regular table. Emile Zola hosts an after theatre supper party at Véfour after a disastrous play opening, is comforted by Daudet and Flaubert. Marc Chagall has birthday lunch with his twin granddaughters. Gustave Mahler dines with his wife, Alma, and tells about his visit with Sigmund   Freud in Leiden. Jean Paul Sartre decides to refuse the Nobel Prize and with Simone de Beauvoir plans his announcement.  Sixteen chapters, each a different highly personal revelation of a person of great worth and merit involved in serious discussion. The book is profusely  illustrated with long ago  menus, many photographs of the people involved and AUTHOR'S NOTES at the beginning of each chapter setting  the context for the conversation AT THE TABLE OF LE GRAND VÉFOUR  by Sandy Lesberg</p>

At The Table of Le Grand Vefour

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LESBERG, Sandy

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Sandy Lesberg

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