Auguste and Louis Lumière
Many famous people have eaten in the restaurant, including Paul Verlaine, Jules Verne, Émile Zola, Édith Piaf, Colette, Ernest Hemingway, Jacques Brel, Alphonse Daudet, Anatole France, Léon Blum, Auguste and Louis Lumière, Luis Mariano, Auguste Rodin and many others. Alphonse de Lamartine, who ate there frequently, would have left a slate of 40 francs. Twelve ministers have come to restore it in 1995. Bernadette Chirac ate there in 1998 and 1999.