"café society" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1938 Sept. 19, \"Books: Caf\" (book review of The Happy Island by Dawn Powell), Time (retrieved 26 May 2014)",
          "text": "Manhattan café society provokes a lot of writing, most of it about as enduring as a café socialite's hangover."
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          "ref": "1988 August 23, Wolfgang Saxon, “Obituary: Jerome Zerbe, 85, Photographer Of Café Society and a Columnist”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-05-26:",
          "text": "He was one of those who in the 1930's pioneered . . . candid shots of socialites and entertainers out-on-the-town and eager to be seen. . . . His photography became one of the elements on which café society thrived.",
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          "ref": "2009 November 20, John Lichfield, “Cafe society is dead, but long live the cafe”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 2014-05-26:",
          "text": "This was the moment […] when he realised that the free-wheeling café culture of the 1930s or the 1950s – when Jean-Paul Sartre held court in Montparnasse – had vanished. Overall, he concludes (rightly, I think) that the French café is thriving but French café society is dead.",
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          "ref": "2013 January 23, “Iran's morality police crack down on coffee shops: Popular hangout for Tehrani intellectuals closes”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 2014-05-26:",
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        "Especially from the late-19th century through the mid-20th century in Europe and America, a culture characterized by continual socializing in bistros, coffee shops, and nightclubs, sometimes extravagantly frivolous and sometimes intensely intellectual in nature but always high-spirited."
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