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The cafés surrounding the Montparnasse area of Paris play a key role in the narrative of That Summer in Paris as it is where all the writers arrange to meet.

What can be seen from the graph on Googles Ngram Viewer is that between the years 1918 and 1938 there is a particular rise in the use of the word café. This is the period which a lot of American expatriates left their native country for Europe where there is a café culture. At points in That Summer in Paris it seems that writing is a means with which the characters of the text can live this social life. Rather than coming together and meeting with other writers in order to improve the quality or quantity of texts.