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Coffee, this drink full of sensibility and easy to ponder, has experienced countless mysterious twists and turns from its discovery to a series of processes of dissemination and development. After coffee was introduced into Europe, it was indissoluble with many celebrities, leaving a lot of anecdotes.

Coffee was first introduced to Europe by Venetian merchants in 1615. At the beginning, people lacked understanding of coffee, and Europe under the rule of the Church was wary and resistant to this strange black drink from the Arab world. At that time, the Church prohibited people from drinking coffee. Pope Clement VIII, after tasting coffee himself, could not help but be conquered by the delicious taste of coffee, so he was overjoyed: Why did this delicious drink let Satan enjoy it alone? Let coffee be baptized as God's drink! As soon as this was said, coffee began to spread all over Europe on a large scale.

Bach, the great German musician, was a big fan of coffee. Not only did he love coffee himself, but coffee was also a theme in his works, his famous Coffee Canta, written between 1734 and 1735. The plot is about a girl named Lizzie who has a habit of coffee. Her father asks her to give up this habit, but she refuses. The father then uses various threats to entice the woman to give in, but all fail. Later, he has to beg her daughter to find a good husband for her if she gives up coffee. The daughter said: Unless the engagement is written "I am allowed to drink coffee after marriage," the whole song is humorous and optimistic, and it is Bach's most famous cantatas. One of the lyrics describing coffee "sweeter than a thousand kisses, more intoxicating than old wine" has become a classic.

Harvey, the British doctor who discovered blood circulation, was still thinking about his coffee before he died. He asked the lawyer to give him a coffee bean, and he looked at it for a long time and said,"I didn't expect this little coffee bean to be the source of happiness and value." His will was also unusual for coffee: a portion of his estate was donated to London Medical University, the amount of money he spent drinking coffee throughout his life, and he asked donors to honor him by drinking coffee on his annual sacrifice day.

Perhaps, as harvey said,"coffee is the source of happiness and value," so the great musician mozart drank his last cup of coffee before he died and sighed,"oh, how comfortable!" To die.

Balzac was also a coffee fanatic. Coffee is more important to him than three meals a day. When he was writing, he usually got up in the middle of the night, lit a candle, and began to write. When he was tired of his eyelids, he would stop to make himself a cup of coffee, cheer himself up, start writing again, have breakfast and coffee at eight in the morning, then continue writing, and then add coffee to lunch until five or six in the afternoon, drinking coffee all the time. It is said that he drank more than 30,000 cups of coffee in his lifetime. It can be said that his works are dipped in coffee for ink to write out.

The culture of the Left Bank of Paris is a page that will never fade in the history of Western culture and art, and the Left Bank Cafe is the most wonderful paragraph on this page. Left Bank Cafe combines the fragrance of coffee with the smell of literature and art. It is this atmosphere that attracts more literary celebrities to linger here and create many excellent works. Around the oldest St. Germain church, there is the first cafe de Fiore (also known as the "Flower God Cafe"), this cafe and the adjacent restaurant Deux Magots (Auy Deux Magots) is the famous philosopher Sartre and his lover Heinepova almost every day to pass the time of the place. The menu of the café is still printed with Sartre's quote: "The god of freedom passes through the path of the god of flowers..." Nearby, the Lippe Brasserie was a place where André Fande and his contributors to France met regularly to discuss their writing, and where Saint Laurent frequented.

Not far from the cathedral, on Montparnasse Avenue, the famous cafe de clove is another important gathering center. Russian-born French writer Chagall, American Henry Miller, Irish Joyce, musician Stravinsky, writer Hemingway, painter Picasso and others all worked in this so-called "literary cafe" before they became famous. This group of literary artists gathered every Tuesday night around Paul Fall, the so-called Prince of Poets. Hemingway first arrived in Paris because of poverty and no fixed income, clove cafe is his frequent place, but also here conceived "the sun also rises", so far,"clove cafe" still retains a "Hemingway chair", retaining a signature dish called "Hemingway pepper steak". Sartre and his girlfriend Simone frequented the nearby Cafe de Coupole, where Picasso fell in love with Miss Dora Gill at first sight, and Joyce met Sylvia Beech, the proprietress of Shakespeare's library, and her recommendation led to Ulysses. The Left Bank Cafe is the source of inspiration for Left Bank culture.

At the end of the 16th century Shakespeare came to Verona, a small town in northern Italy. It was in Verona's cafe that he heard the story of Romeo and Juliet. He was moved and intended to write a book. So he went out to collect wind during the day and worked hard in the cafe at night. In more than a month, he completed the immortal masterpiece Romeo and Juliet.

When Van Gogh was in Paris, he frequented the Tambourine Tavern, drinking and making friends or looking for suitable models. His creation of the "tambourine cafe woman" is to tambourine cafe owner Yacostina as the description of the object.

In 1888 Van Gogh left Paris exhausted and went south in search of peace. He often went to coffee shops to observe the depressed souls and painted scenes from coffee shops. In the painting Cafe at Night, the figure exudes a demonic atmosphere. One week, he survived on twenty-three cups of coffee and a few slices of bread in four days. Two months before his death, on May 21, 1890, fearing the noise of Paris and eager to pick up his paintbrush again, Van Gogh went to Auville with a letter of introduction from his brother Theo to see Dr. Gachet, a friend of the painter Pissarro and Cézanne, an amateur artist who loved painting. The doctor found him a summer hotel for six francs a day, but Van Gogh checked into the Hotel Lavou opposite the Town Hall, where he only paid 3.5 francs a day. Van Gogh once said: "The cafe is a place where people think, make people commit crimes and make people degenerate." Van Gogh placed his complicated feelings on the cafe. In his will, he wrote: I believe that after my death, my paintings will be displayed in the cafe. More than 100 years after his death, his exhibition was held in the Ravu Cafe.

Habitually, we always associate coffee with literati, but I don't know that many politicians also have unique feelings for coffee. It would be a bit exaggerated to say that these politicians are "holding coffee cups in one hand and ruling the world in the other", but coffee does provide them with great spiritual strength. There are also many interesting things worth mentioning.

James, British philosopher and political activist McIntosh, he loves coffee. He believes that a person's intelligence is directly proportional to the amount of coffee they drink.

The distinguished French diplomat Talleyrand (1754- 1838) once said: "The best coffee should be black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love." His classic comment on coffee is simple and thorough, far better than the long words of literati.

Napoleon also loved coffee, and he described the feeling of drinking coffee as: "A certain amount of coffee excites me and gives me warmth and unusual strength." It is said that he once forgot to bring money for coffee in a cafe and left his military hat in debt. The famous Royal Coffee was an accidental invention during Napoleon's expedition to Russia. At that time, because of the cold weather in Russia, he taught soldiers to mix brandy in coffee to warm up, and later this coffee was improved into the famous royal coffee.

During the French Revolution, Robespierre, Danton and Marat discussed political affairs and planned revolutions in cafes many times.

When Lenin was in Paris, it was also the café that provided him with good space and environment, and it was also in the café that he planned the famous October Revolution.

There are also many interesting things about coffee in modern western politics.

During World War I, Nancy Astor, an American-born feminist, visited Churchill to help her run for office as the first woman in the House of Representatives and to talk about her feminist views. Churchill laughed at the idea and disagreed with some of her views, much to the lady's annoyance. She said to Churchill,"Winston, if I were your wife, I'd poison your coffee cup."

Churchill continued softly,"If I were your husband, I would drink it without hesitation."

During World War II, the United States strictly implemented a rationing system, and each person could only drink one cup of coffee per day. Roosevelt told reporters one day that he had had a cup of coffee in the morning and another in the evening. The reporters immediately asked: "We only have one cup of coffee per person per day. Where did you get two cups?"

Many reporters thought that this time, they would definitely be able to grab the headlines.

In the face of the reporter's censure, Roosevelt replied calmly: "I do drink a cup of coffee in the morning and evening, but in the evening I boil the coffee grounds again." Whether it was the president's ability to cope or the coffee's charm, the brewed coffee has since taken on a new and more resounding name-Roosevelt Coffee.

The scientific community, too, was haunted by the aroma of coffee.

From his youth, Einstein often met with Solvin, Habicht and others at Olympia Cafe. While drinking coffee and eating simple things, while discussing mathematics, physics, philosophy and other problems, learning from each other, Einstein learned a lot from them. Later, they nicknamed this form of gathering the Olympian Academy of Sciences. This particular "academy" played a large role in his later great achievements in science.

He used to go to the Metropolitan Cafe. There he sat all afternoon with a cup of coffee in front of him and a book in his hand, sometimes brooding and sometimes writing excitedly on it. At the Metropolitan Cafe, Einstein finished reading his famous book The Value of Science.

British scientist Martin graduated from Cambridge University and worked for Wool Industry Research Association, Boots Pure Medicine Company Research Department, National Institute of Medicine, Wilkomie Foundation of Britain, etc.

One day, he was drinking coffee with other researchers and accidentally spilled coffee on filter paper. After the coffee drops penetrate the filter paper, the coffee color in the center of the trace is the strongest, and as the coffee gradually penetrates, the color becomes lighter and lighter.

Looking at the varying shades of color on the filter paper, Martin thought that perhaps this principle would allow the separation of the amino acids he was most concerned about at the moment. After various efforts, Martin finally devised a paper separation method by which amino acids could be separated using filter paper.

Martin won the Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1952 with co-researcher Singer.

Whether it is fact or good, or add people's guess and exaggeration, in short, coffee since its birth, and human beings have formed an inseparable relationship and gradually infiltrated people's lives, and these celebrity anecdotes are just a few more dazzling stars in the vast universe, in those ordinary stars, coffee and human stories, still many, with the rotation of time, constantly staged, thousands of years later, what kind of story will be circulated?