Show coffee in prance thevenot tho french traveler on his return from the orient in treated his guests to after dinner coffee to parisians Pari this was merely an eccentricity that C tou not have become fashionable ant for a similar example set by soliman aga the gallant Turl rish ambassador in 1669 he enlisted the enthusiasm of court ladies in favor of the black and bitter liquor philosophers and littera deurs gladly gave in their adhesion boileau la fontaine moliere voltaire and the together with the chess players found inspiration in the coffee houses which thenceforward assumed conspicuous position in the social life of gallic cities racine and coffee will pass is a prediction of madame de sevigne as yet most of fulfillment richard wheatley in harpers weekly |