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Re: Voltaire's Weird Situation with Coffee

On Oct 7, 4:27 pm, "Twug Storn" <tytyt...@tytyttyty.com> wrote:
> "javawizard" <javawiz...@aol.com> wrote in message
>
> news:99a4fa76-6216-4444-8211-690fc3eef3e4@m74g2000hsh.googlegroups.com...
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> > Voltaire drank between fifty and sixty-five cups of coffee every day.
> > - from the Food section ofwww.odd-info.com
>
> Probably little tiny cups

I'd wonder -- being it's going to be brewed, and likely served up with
mugs, wooden or fired earthen.  Also, where he drank it -- coffee
would have been right for a café, as it was his youth that saw coffee
being first moved off street vendors and into  house establishments.
Let's see, ah yes -- Voltaire frequented The Café de Procope, at some
opposition to La Comédie, Procope, also being of lower street urchin
origins, whose proprietor managed to build and sway into an artistic
vogue, clients of a likes among writers, musicians, or actors.
Voltaire actually preferred coffee without culinary taste strictures,
being it was laced by chocolate.  The candid beat aesthete, however,
often a populous characterization of a French cavernous setting, in a
dark basement dimly offset by candles, may very well be prototypically
found in this very den he frequented.  To credit, one may suppose, an
adherence his stayed within alliances, and forewent any indulgence The
Café Royal Drummer sallied, as aristocratic bents inclined;--
Apparently within contrasts, Louis XV incessantly attended, to a
degree of vice and excess apportioned, that Marie Antoinette no less
gratified at some further realm of what that should conceivably
entail.

From the mere briefest of trivias compounded from [pp. 18-20 of] The
Book of Coffee and Tea, by Joel Schapira, I humbly thought to submit
for your greater perusal.

Ennobled in attestation, as always &etc.,
-F

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