Some celebrities related to coffee

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 and sweet as love."

King Louis XV of France was also a coffee fanatic and liked to brew his own coffee. He asked the gardener to plant coffee trees in the garden, harvesting nearly 3 kilograms of coffee beans a year.

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

The great French writer. Balzac drinks 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."As soon as the coffee got into his stomach," he said,"his whole body began to boil and his mind got into position, like a company of great troops on the battlefield."

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.

The French Enlightenment movement home Burfonnell (1657-1757), loved drinking coffee all his life, when he lived to the age of 100, a neighbor only two years younger than him joked to him: "Sir, you and I have lived in the world for so long, maybe death has forgotten us." He replied,"hush, hush."

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.

James Mackintosh, English philosopher and political activist, was passionately attached to coffee. He believes that a person's intelligence is directly proportional to the amount of coffee they drink.

King Friedrich II of Prussia (1712-1785), who drank coffee regularly, distinguished himself by drinking it neat and mixed with champagne.

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