The cafe from the upper room of which Hermann Goldschmidt discovered many of his minor planets.

Established in 1686 by the Sicilian Francesco Procopio dei Coltelli, it was the world's first coffee house. It quickly became the resort of the fashionable and intellectual elite of Paris. Famous customers included Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire, who apparently drank 40 cups of coffee and chocolate mixed (known as mocha nowadays) every day and Alexander von Humboldt, who lunched here during the 1820s every day from 11am to noon.

It was refurbished in 1989 in eighteenth century style.