Boutique Coffee Culture, French and Coffee

There is a French proverb: "Unjoursansfromage,cestunjoursanssoleil." "It means that for the French, if there is no cheese on a day, there is no sunshine on that day. But I think they'd be even more depressed if they didn't have coffee in their lives than if they didn't have sun and cheese. French people cannot live without coffee. Coffee is not just a drink for them, it implies rich cultural connotations. Cafes in cities and villages are a symbol of the French way of life.

If one day you go to France for sightseeing, in the colorful, busy Champs Elysees Avenue, blue Mediterranean coast, or quiet and isolated streets in the provinces, see those or magnificent, or quaint elegant, or mottled simple cafes, I suggest you might as well go in and sit down and feel the environment and atmosphere there. The French have made a survey of foreign tourists. When asked what is the most attractive thing in Paris, many people answer not the Louvre, Eiffel Tower and other popular attractions, but the cafes scattered in the streets of Paris. Cafes have been likened to the skeletons of France, and it has been said that France would fall apart if they were taken apart. Xu Zhimo also said,"If Paris lacks cafes, I am afraid it will become loveless." "

Recalling his time studying in France, busy schoolwork, plus part-time to earn tuition fees, that day, if you use an inch of time to compare, it is not too much to describe. At that time, the most luxurious and enjoyable enjoyment was not as rare as strolling to the outdoor cafe of the pedestrian street on a sunny afternoon, asking for a cup of hot coffee, sitting down facing the road, and looking casually at all kinds of pedestrians passing by in the sunshine filled with coffee aroma. That leisure and comfort is beyond words, only to experience in person will have a feeling of belonging to oneself.

The French have the Latin blood in their veins, and they love to talk and show themselves. During the medieval feudal period, the French court was the center of French political and cultural life, and the salons of the upper class always led the popular culture and fashion of France. The relaxed, elegant, romantic and colorful lifestyle of the royal aristocrats influenced the public's life. Coffee houses inherited some of the communicative functions of aristocratic salons in the social life of common people, especially intellectuals.

French people don't just go to cafes for coffee, they go there more to relax. Ordinary people like to join in the fun, party or dinner, where there are many people like to go there. No wonder, then, that in most French restaurants the waiter places the first guests at a table by the window and lights a small candle. When night falls, guests outside will be involuntarily attracted by the flickering candlelight and faint figures in the dining room to share the warm air in the hall. Whether you are a learned philosopher, a frustrated literati, a frustrated artist, or a student at school, you can relax there with a cup of hot coffee or other drink. Of course, invite a few friends, colleagues or classmates to sit there and chat, exchange ideas, discuss homework, and write homework. Some lonely people often come here to spend their unbearable time looking for comfort in their hearts. French advocate freedom, equality, fraternity is often concentrated in this less than 100 square cafes.

The Seine River winds through the center of Paris. The right bank of the river is a prosperous financial and trade consumption area. The left bank is a Latin area with rich cultural heritage, where many cafes, bookstores, galleries, art galleries and museums are concentrated. The cafés of the Rue Montparnasse, the Rue Saint-Germain and the Rue Saint-Michel reached an unprecedented prosperity in the early twentieth century, and they were sacred places and spiritual homes for writers and artists all over the world. Picasso, Hemingway, Zola, Van Gogh, Joyce, Freud have woven their dreams here, spent their youth. Poor painters and writers from different countries who are not yet famous will chat from morning to night in warm cafes. They talk and interact with each other. Ideas and passions often collide with brilliant artistic sparks and create extraordinary works of art. When Picasso first arrived in France, he was short of money and traded his worthless paintings for room and board in cafes. The kind owner could not have imagined that the kindness he had shown the painter would be rewarded so richly. Ernest Hemingway once said,"If you are lucky enough to go to Paris when you are young, it will follow you everywhere you go for the rest of your life." Paris is a moving feast. "

The café de girode on Montparnasse Street was frequented by American writers Miller, Hemingway, Irish writer Joyce and Spanish painter Picasso. Today, Hemingway's usual chair is still there, with his name engraved on the bronze plate on the back. Cloves Cafe has a specialty called Hemingway Pepper Steak. Many American tourists visit Paris without fail.

The café de Flore opposite the church of Saint Germain and the cafe des deuxmagors next door were places where the existentialist masters Sartre and Beauvoir discussed and wrote daily. It was sitting at the street window of the Café de la Flora that Beauvoir wrote those passionate love letters to her American lover, Algren.

Le Procope was the first café to open in Paris. Three hundred years later, it still retains its classic and elegant decoration. Voltaire and Rousseau, thinkers of the European Enlightenment Movement in the 18th century, and Diderot, author of the world's first encyclopedia, wrote works here that influenced the revolution and social development process in Europe and America. The three giants of the French Revolution, Robespierre, Danton and Marat, also talked with other revolutionaries about the ideal of changing society and described their own blueprints. These brilliant names often enable us to trace more or less the passage of time in the interlaced space-time.

Relaxed, eclectic cafes will also allow us to sweep away the fatigue of the journey and immerse ourselves in French elegance and romance.