HISTORY OF THE EARLY PARISIAN COFFEE HOUSES
_The introduction of coffee into Paris by Thévenot in 1657--How
Soliman Aga established the custom of coffee drinking at the court
of Louis XIV--Opening the first coffee houses--How the French
adaptation of the Oriental coffee house first appeared in the real
French café of François Procope--The important part played by the
coffee houses in the development of French literature and the
stage--Their association with the Revolution and the founding of
the Republic--Quaint customs and patrons--Historic Parisian cafés_
If we are to accept the authority of Jean La Roque, "before the year
1669 coffee had scarcely been seen in Paris, except at M. Thévenot's and
at the homes of some of his friends. Nor had it been heard of except in
the writings of travelers."
As noted in chapter V, Jean de Thévenot brought coffee into Paris in