Founded in 1927, The dome is a kind of gigantic artist’s studio. Indeed, the decoration of the restaurant is listed in the Inventory of Historic Monuments.
From its opening, we meet the painters Derain, Light, Brace, Man Ray, picasso, Matisse, Sartre.
It is also at La Coupole that Louis Aragon meets his future wife, Elsa Triolet. Josephine Baker dine there regularly with George Simenon and Mistinguett has a habit of making sensational entries. As for Camus, table 149 is exclusively reserved for him. A few years later, La Coupole is still as famous and hosts Daniel Cohn Bendit, Patti Smith, renaud, Serge Gainsbourg and his jane, Marc Chagall or François Mitterrand for his last meal.