It 's been a home-away-from-home for the extreme right Action Franaaise group under Charles Maurras in 1899 ; the poet and surrealist precursor Apollinaire in 1914 ( who , with his friends , liked to provoke brawls ) ; and , during the 1950s , Sartre 's existentialists , a peaceful bunch who never got enough sleep to have the energy to fight .
In 1914 , it was a home-away-from-home for a poet named Apollinaire .