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Café-Bar

Paris 16e Arrondissement, Paris, France

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Designation
Historic monument, registered (inscrit), in part
Protection
inscrit MH partiellement
Extent of protection
La devanture et le décor intérieur : inscription par arrêté du 23 mai 1984
Protection dates
1984/05/23 : inscrit MH
Type
café
Main period of construction
1er quart 20e siècle
Dates
1920
Ownership
propriété privée
Address
5 rue Mesnil
Commune
Paris 16e Arrondissement
Département
Paris
Region
Île-de-France
Country
France
Coordinates
48.86880, 2.28483
Mérimée reference
PA00086665

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1865 map "Paris, France." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

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Bar ouvert aux alentours de 1920, avec une devanture fermée d'un coffrage en bois et portant le nom d'origine "Bar Marcel" en lettres dorées fixées sous verre. L'intérieur est revêtu en carreaux de céramique avec des motifs floraux stylisés ocre et vert caractéristiques des années 1920. Le café s'appelle aujourd'hui "Le Petit Rétro".

English translation

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Bar opened around 1920, with a shop front closed by a timber frame and bearing the original name "Bar Marcel" in gilded letters fixed under glass. The interior is faced with ceramic tiles with stylized floral motifs in ochre and green characteristic of the 1920s. The café is today called "Le Petit Rétro".

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Base Mérimée, Ministère de la Culture, data last updated 2026-09-17, reused under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab). Record text is reproduced unchanged. Ministère de la Culture · Licence Ouverte 2.0
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