It 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, a
popular language for verse throughout Europe until well into the
eighteenth century. L'Abbe Guillaume Massieu, priest turned
teacher, gives a witty yet instructive account of the origins of
coffee, its real or alleged properties, and how to make the perfect
cup, an account which loses none of its sparkle and humour in John
T. Gilmore's masterly translation.
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