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Many celebrities have an indissoluble bond with coffee. The great German composer J. S. Bach not only loved coffee himself, but also advised others to drink it. Incredibly, he has written a one-act musical comedy, Coffee Chorus, about an elderly father who persuades his daughter to kick the habit.

The great French writer, Ion Balzac, drank a lot of coffee every day. He thinks coffee helps with inspiration. He usually went to bed at 6 p.m., slept until 12 p.m., then got up and wrote for twelve hours straight, drinking coffee all the time."Once the coffee got into his stomach," he said,"his whole body began to boil and his mind was in position, like a company of great troops on the battlefield. "

Napoleon (1769- 1821), the French emperor, loved coffee all his life. He described the feeling of drinking coffee as: "A certain amount of strong coffee excites me and gives me warmth and unusual strength." "

King Friedrich II of Prussia (1712--1785) had a habit of drinking coffee, but he was unusual in drinking coffee neat and mixed with champagne.

American general U. Grant (1822--1885), accustomed to breakfast, eating fresh vinegar and cucumber, followed by strong coffee, a large cup a day.

Immanuel Kant, the great German philosopher, was not very fond of coffee in his early years, but in his later years he had a particularly strong attachment to coffee.

Jan Mackintosh, British philosopher and political activist, was passionate about coffee. He believes that a person's intelligence is directly proportional to the amount of coffee they drink.

The 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." "

Voltaire (1694- 1778), the eminent French thinker, drank coffee heavily even in his later years. He is said to drink as much as 50 cups of coffee a day. He was told coffee was a chronic poison, and he drank it for 65 years and still hasn't died. Voltaire lived to be 84 years old.

French Enlightenment home Bo Fontenelle (1657--1757), love to drink coffee all his life, when he lived to the age of 100, a neighbor only two years younger than him old lady joked to him: "Sir, you and I have lived in the world for so long, perhaps death has forgotten us." He replied,"Shh, hush, it's better that Death doesn't think of us. "

King Louis XV of France, who was also a coffee fanatic and liked to cook his own coffee, had his gardener plant coffee trees in his garden, harvesting six pounds of beans a year. These coffee beans are for your own cooking.

But some celebrities have banned coffee. In 1524, the Inquisition of Mecca ordered the closure of all cafes in Mecca to avoid riots. In 1570, King Amarat III of Turkey, who regarded the ban on coffee as a ban on alcohol for devout Muslims, ordered the closure of all cafes in Constantinople. In addition, King Gustav III of Switzerland (1746- 1792) also considered coffee a drug and banned it. Even in the nineteenth century, Swiss kings made such decisions many times. (This article is reproduced)