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La Palette, Café in the 6th arrondissement, Paris, France

La Palette is a café-brasserie at the corner of rue de Seine and rue Jacques-Callot in the 6th arrondissement. Its front has a broad light-coloured awning with dark green "LA PALETTE" lettering on a white band, glass panels and dark wood below. Inside are a tiny bar room and a larger back room, once a billiard hall, hung with 1930s–40s ceramics and paintings, one showing the owners as a young couple.

The café was bought by Jean Louis Hilbert between the two wars and took the name La Palette in 1950. On 23 May 1984, its front window and the interior of the second, back room were listed as a monument historique. The back room had earlier served as a billiard hall.

The café's name dates from 1950, when owner Jean Louis Hilbert renamed it La Palette. Its clientele has ranged from Cézanne, Picasso and Braque to Ernest Hemingway, Jim Morrison, Harrison Ford and Julia Roberts, and former president Jacques Chirac, a neighbour, was a regular on the terrace. The bar room appears in Taylor Swift's 2012 "Begin Again" video.

La Palette stands at the corner of rue de Seine and rue Jacques-Callot, a short walk from Mabillon station on Metro Line 10. Its large terrace opens onto rue Jacques-Callot, while inside a narrow bar room leads to the larger back room.

The bar room appears in Taylor Swift's 2012 music video for "Begin Again", and scenes from Gérard Oury's film Le Coup du parapluie were also shot here. The café is named in Paul Auster's 2009 novel Invisible, where the main character visits several times.

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