Coffee Story-French Coffee

Cafes in France started a prairie fire in the streets of Paris as early as the 18th century. The free and warm atmosphere made the cafe gradually become a place for French intellectuals to criticize the imperial government at that time, which played a catalytic role in the French Revolution of 1789.

The coffee of the French is actually far less exquisite than that of their cafes. Compared with other European peoples, the French have a light taste of coffee, and because French coffee basically comes from French colonies, and most of their colonies are in Africa. As a result, Robusta beans, rich in Africa, became food for the French. Robota beans belong to the sturdy beans of coffee beans, which are not sour, but bitter and fishy. In order to cover up this bad taste, the French invented heavily roasted French carbon coffee, masking it with the bitter smell of roasted to black carbon.

French cafes are world-famous, and the romantic atmosphere of French cafes attracts countless tourists to pay homage. It is obvious that the price of a cup of coffee in a cafe is far higher than that of a pot at home, but the French just go to the cafe, and always go to the place they like or are used to, do their own seats, drink the same coffee every time, or even match the same refreshments. And the waiters in the cafe also have a French tacit understanding. They don't need to communicate with each other and say a few words to get the kind of service you want. Whether it's seats, music, coffee, snacks or newspapers.

The earliest and most famous Prokop Cafe in Paris, opened in 1689, is owned by Italian immigrants. As soon as the cafe, located in the French Comedy Theatre in the Latin district, opened, it was full of customers, actors, novelists, playwrights and musicians gathered here. It is said that Napoleon had no money for coffee here before the French Revolution, so he had to leave his cap to cover the bill.

When the wave of the French Revolution passed, the spirit of French literature and art, which has always been the heyday of literary style, achieved unprecedented prosperity in times of peace, including novelists, playwrights, publishers, painters and musicians. Paris is like a huge magnet that attracts talented young people. And the cafe is their favorite place to go.

Nowadays, the poor literati and unsuccessful artists who have become masters have a good habit, that is, they usually have their own fixed cafes or even fixed seats. It's hard to say whether it's the Parisian ethos that infects them, or whether they infect Parisians-almost every Parisian has their own fixed cafe, and the time they come to the cafe, the seats they sit and the coffee they drink are fixed.