Café de la Régence
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The Café de la Régence in Paris was an important European centre of chess in the 18th and 19th centuries. All important chess masters of the time played there.
The famous chess match between Howard Staunton and Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant, on 16 December 1843, by Jean-Henri Marlet
![Fictional depiction of the great chess masters of the time gathering to play at the café, Antti Favén [fi], 1902–1913](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Antti_Fav%C3%A9n_-_Chess_Players.jpg/500px-Antti_Fav%C3%A9n_-_Chess_Players.jpg)
Fictional depiction of the great chess masters of the time gathering to play at the café, Antti Favén [fi], 1902–1913
Karl Marx
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Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist. He developed the theory of historical materialism, analysing societal structure and change, particularly
Café de la Régence
…In 1742, the celebrated French writers and philosophers Diderot and Rousseau met at this café. Karl Marx met Friedrich Engels for the second time at this café on 28 August 1844. The "great tournament of Paris 1867," won by Ignatz von Kolisch over Szymon…
Marx's birthplace, now Brückenstraße 10, in Trier. The family occupied two rooms on the ground floor and three on the first floor. Purchased by the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1928, it now houses a museum devoted to him.
Marx before 1840
Jenny von Westphalen in the 1830s
Trierer students in front of the White Horse, among them, Karl Marx