The Story of Coffee celebrities Picasso

Gabriel de Clee, French military officer, planted the first coffee trees in Matinique, where there were 18 million in 1777, some shipped to Haiti, Santo Domingo and Guadeloupe.

Voltaire, French historian and philosopher, who drank coffee and chocolate for 65 years.

Dandong, Marat, famous French revolutionary leader, drank a few cups of coffee before staging the podium.

Balzac, a great French critical realism writer in the 19th century, is the founder and outstanding representative of European critical realism literature, and one of the highest achievements of French realism literature. After drinking coffee for 20 years, Balzac is a coffee lover, and his sentence "I am not at home, I am in the cafe; I am not in the cafe, I am on my way to the cafe." Some people have made statistics to build "human comedy" famous Balzac, drinking 50,000 cups of coffee in his life, an average of 6 to 7 cups a day.

Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor. Members of the French Communist Party. He is the founder of modern art and the main representative of western modernist painting. 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.

Napoleon, the acknowledged god of war, was one of the four greatest military commanders in European history (Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Hannibal, Napoleon) and loved coffee all his life. He described the feeling of drinking coffee as,"The right amount of strong coffee will make me excited, and at the same time give me warmth and unusual strength."

Mark Twain, a famous American novelist, once described his feeling of drinking Turkish coffee: "I drank a strong and bitter coffee, although it was only a small cup, but the coffee grounds stubbornly blocked my throat and chest, making me breathe hard and coughing for half an hour..."

Stefan Zweig, an Austrian writer, described the Viennese coffee culture of that time: "The café has always been a great place to get in touch with and receive news. To understand this, one must first understand what a cafe in Vienna is. In fact, the Café in Vienna is a cultural institution not found anywhere else in the world, a democratic club, and admission is nothing more than the price of a cup of coffee."

Van Gogh, Dutch post-impressionist painter, 1853-1890, had a small wish: "Perhaps one day my paintings will be displayed in a cafe." Many of his classic works were also created in cafes. Bridge of Langlois, Cafe at Night, Yellow House.

Bach, a famous German musician, is known as the "father of Western music." Bach's famous Coffee Cantta embodies the happy blend of coffee and music.

Einstein, German-born American physicist (Swiss nationality), author of relativity, the "mass-energy relationship," often sat in the Metropolitan Cafe with a cup of coffee and a book in his hand, sometimes pondering and sometimes excitedly writing on the book, for an afternoon. Here Einstein finished reading his famous book The Value of Science.

Ernest Hemingway, a famous American novelist, his representative works include "The Sun Also Rises","A Farewell to Arms","For Whom the Bell Tolls","The Old Man and the Sea". When Hemingway looked back on his past, he realized that he was just a stranger who lingered in various cafes.

Che Guevara, Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. He is a hero of the Republic of Cuba, equivalent to Chairman Mao Zedong of China in Cuba. Although it is impossible to verify his connection with coffee before his death, coffee shops have long been places where "coffee is brewed and world affairs are discussed", so Cuban coffee shops all hang his portrait. It has also become the image symbol of Cuba's famous coffee brand Cubita.

Andy Lau, a famous pop star and movie star in Hong Kong today, is called "Hua Zi" by his fans. He used to be an out-and-out coffee control. He drinks more than ten cups of black coffee every day."Drinking coffee before bed can hypnotize him instead!" However, after being strongly opposed by fans and family members, Andy Lau had to restrain his addiction to coffee and drink only warm water.

Pele, one of the greatest football stars of the twentieth century, was revered by his fans as the "King of Football". Pele scored 1281 goals in his career, represented his country in four World Cups and won three World Cups (6th, 7th and 9th). In 1980, he was named the most outstanding athlete of the 20th century by more than 20 newspaper reporters in Europe and America. In June 1987, he was awarded the FIFA Gold Medal. In 1999, he was elected as the "Athlete of the Century" by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). In 2010, he served as ambassador for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. He created his own coffee brand "Bailey Coffee" and served as an ambassador for Brazilian coffee.