Bohèmes au café. (1886) Jean-François Raffaelli. Pastel on fabric. 55 x 44 cm. Bordeaux: Musée des Beaux-Arts.

Café Guerbois, on Batignolles Street in Paris, was the site of late 19th century discussions and planning amongst artists, writers and art lovers — the "bohèmes" (bohemians), in contrast to the "bourgeois". 1886 is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) Events January 18 _ Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Though a Bohemian is a native of the Czech province of Bohemia, a secondary meaning for Bohemian emerged in 19th_century France. ... Bourgeois at the end of the thirteenth century. ...

Centered on Édouard Manet, the group gathered at the café usually on Sundays and Thursdays. Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar) Édouard Manet ( January 23, 1832 - April 30, 1883) was a noted French painter. ...

Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, Louis Edmond Duranty, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley regularly joined in the discussions. Sometimes Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro also joined them. The group is sometimes called "The Batignolles Group," and many of the members are associated with impressionism. mile Zola (April 2, 1840 - September 29, 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France. ... Henri Fantin-Latour (January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) was a French painter and lithographer. ... Edgar Degas (July 19, 1834 – September 27, 1917) was a French painter and sculptor. ... Oscar-Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 _ December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. ... Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 - December 3, 1919) was a preeminent French painter. ... Alfred Sisley (October 30, 1839 - January 29, 1899) was a French impressionist painter. ... Categories: 1839 births | 1906 deaths | French painters | Post-impressionism | Artist stubs ... The garden at Pontoise, painted 1877. ... See also Impressionist (entertainment): A girl with a watering can by Renoir, 1876 Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. ...

Conversations were often heated and on one evening in February 1870, so heated that Manet, instulted by a review that Duranty wrote, shot Duranty in a duel. The wound was not fatal, and the two remained friends. February is the second month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1870 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

References

• Piece about Emile Zola which mentions the café (http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn_03/reviews/scha.html)
• Batigolles Group article at ArtLex (http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/b/batignolles.html)
• Mention of the café in Manet biography (http://www.impressionniste.net/manet_edouard.htm)]
• Short piece on the café (http://www.mystudios.com/manet/cafe.html)
• About the duel (http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=1061&id=1203232003)