LeProcope's first coffee shop in Paris

"not at home, just in the coffee shop. It's not in the coffee shop, just on the way to the coffee shop. " If you travel to Europe, you can't miss the coffee culture in Europe. Coffee shops over a hundred years old are not uncommon there. The one you turned the corner into may have been Hemingway's writing place; in the corner where you sat, there may have been guests like Beethoven, Picasso and Xu Zhimo. In each of the 12 most famous ancient coffee shops, there is a "modern history" hidden in every fragrance, and each one has a beautiful story that people can't help but recall.

Date of birth: 1686

Coffee shop age: 329

Le Procope, which opened in 1686, was the first coffee shop in Paris. From the outside, it is hard to imagine that this coffee shop in the alley behind St. Germain Avenue has a history of more than 300 years. And if you know it, or talk to the waiters in the store, you'll be surprised to know that Voltaire, Rousseau and Dickens were all regulars here, and it was even here that they wrote down the ideas of the European Enlightenment that became books. Not only that, but the following "names" will make you believe that coming to Le Procope for coffee is "roughly" equivalent to "feeling" the modern history of France: Robespierre, Danton and Mara, the three giants of the French Revolution, are here to discuss their thoughts on social change; and when Napoleon was a young officer, he left an army cap here as collateral because he had no money to pay for it-a hat that is still a "treasure of the town shop" at Le Procope.

In the more than years of Le Procope300, thinkers, writers and artists have patronized it. So much so that the decoration style dominated by large mirrors and marble was widely imitated by later cafes. Over the years, the world outside Le Procope has changed again and again, but the cafe still retains its traditional style.