French Cafe

In France, there are cafes of different styles and sizes, streets, tree-shaded squares, riparian cruise ships and balcony towers attached to buildings everywhere. The open-air cafe is a portrayal of the romantic life of the French, and colorful umbrellas have become a unique street scene decorating the Champs-Elysees. For coffee addicts, the coffee-scented streets on the left bank of the Paris River will always have the most memorable mellow air. Here, while sipping coffee, you can imagine the life of Picasso and Hemingway. The cafe is the spiritual food of the French and a typical symbol of French society and culture. The famous "LeProcoPe Cafe", no matter from the decoration or cultural relics arrangement still maintains the original pattern, exudes classical charm. Voltaire, Rousseau and Diderot, the thinkers of the 18th century European Enlightenment, as well as Robespierre, Danton and Mara, the three heroes of the Great Revolution, were all regulars here.

As a drink, coffee brings people enjoyment, health and exhilaration; as a culture, coffee nurtures the elegant, romantic, dignified and powerful qualities unique to European men.

When you come to the cafe, of course you come to drink coffee first.

Coffee, a magical drink, was endowed with magical functions as early as the Arab era. with the help of coffee, people thought about problems, dreamed of the world, and debated current politics. "it is the spiritual food for thinkers and chess masters"-by the way, Arabs hone their chess skills in coffee shops. Come to the cafe, people read, chat, listen to music, play chess, in the fragrant taste of coffee, let rational thinking insert romantic dream wings.

Europeans are also a people who love to argue, and coffee in their hands has become another extreme culture. Those who drink or gamble are not allowed to enter the door of the cafe, because people come to the cafe to promote intellectual growth. This enthusiasm for cafes expanded rapidly, and by 1730, there were nearly 4000 large and small cafes in Paris, the whirlwind center of the future democratic revolution. Looking at other places, such as London, Rome, Germany and Austria, it is too late to build new cafes, but more downtown restaurants, taverns and even high-end hotels are transformed directly into tall baroque cafes.

Later, cafes have more functions, including tea, cocoa, alcoholic drinks, all kinds of milk snacks and even dishes. In some cafes, people can stay overnight, often with bright lights until midnight, which is very lively.

In order to open up a wider public social life, high-end cafes at that time spared no expense to build halls that could hold dozens or even nearly a hundred coffee tables. For a long time, this was the earliest and only place for people from all walks of life to come and go freely in European cities. Among all kinds of people, there was a flood of inspiration from scholars in cafes and the quintessence of human civilization. From this small coffee table, it slowly spread all over the world.

So linguist Samuel Johnson believes that a cafe is not only a place to sell coffee, but also an idea, a way of life, a social model, a philosophy.