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LE PROCOPE: HISTORIC CAFES AND BRASSERIES OF PARIS
In 1664 Louis XIV first tasted coffee and in 1686 Francesco Procopio opened the first coffee house in Paris called Café Procope.
The address has remained the same although Le Procope is now a restaurant. Its charms are still powerful and the list of former famous patrons, prodigious. George Sand, Honore de Balzac, Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Robespierre, Danton and Marat used the café as a pre-revolution meeting place. Napoleon Bonaparte drank coffee here, and when Benjamin Franklin died in 1790, the café was draped in black. If walls could talk…
Le Procope
13 Rue de l’Ancienne Comedie
6th Arrondisement
Metro: Odeon
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