Coffee: A Poem by Guillaume Massieu, trans. John T Gilmore Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Rachel Willems

Rachel Willems

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Coffee: A Poem by Guillaume Massieu, trans. John T Gilmore Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Rachel WillemsIt is hard to imagine a time when coffee drinking was not part of every day life and yet it was not until the end of the seventeenth century that it became widespread in Europe. The visit of the Turkish Ambassador to Louis XIV's court in 1669 helped to make coffee drinking fashionable in France, so it is not surprising that it was a Frenchman who chose to extol its delights, not to mention its health giving properties, in a long poem written in Latin,