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Café society gets scientific

03 Jun 1999

A new breed of café is spreading across France - les cafés scientifiques and bars des sciences. Topics up for discussion over a glass of Bordeaux include France's nuclear policy, radiation in the universe, and perhaps inevitably, the science of wine. Inspired by the famous cafés philosophiques, les cafés are now starting up all over France and in April the first national meeting took place in Lyon.

French cafés have long been a meeting point for intellectuals. In the 18th century Victor Hugo

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