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Hemingway and the left bank cafe

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After the first world war, American writer Ernest Hemingway to Paris. At that time, Hemingway not famous, living in poverty, and all the cafe near the tear. With pat, located in the lilac flowers 71 avenue, garden cafe is the favorite Hemingway cafe, which left the cafe in Paris LaDingOu filled the literature flavor.

About the "left" the origin of this name is the art of influence on the Seine, Paris. In Paris, the Seine river, the right of the Louvre, elegant, is the classic big champs-elysees avenue, Paris is the most magnificent opera house, orthodox, But in the left bank of the river, is the opposite of the streets, LaDingOu dense city life, many of the artists and tight, here in this college of thought gradually become the cradle of heresy. The left bank cafe therefore also a rebel spirit and avant-garde thoughts of soil and stop. Dream-seeker

Hemingway wrote a series of short stories, the content is describing his youth in Paris situations. Later, he with the old man and the sea "won the Nobel Prize for literature. A few cafes are left in the world because of Hemingway and more prestigious.

Coffee to Picasso inspiration

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Picasso in the age of 16, his uncle’s aid, the Royal Academy to Madrid alone. He often experience life in a cafe. A period of time as he constantly cafe and paint the outbreak of inspiration, leaving many beloved, such as iron clothes woman etc.

Voltaire and chronic poison

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Voltaire coffee addiction, life drank the staggering number of coffee.

A man has warned he said: "don’t drink this beverage, it is a chronic poison, you are in chronic suicide!" The old philosophers uselessly humorously said: ‘you are right, I think it must be chronic, otherwise, why do I have to drink the 65 years haven’t died? "

In the cafes study Einstein

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Einstein from youth, often with Peter, hubby and cable to Ethiopia cafe brands "party. Sipping coffee and eat some simple things, mathematics, physics and discuss problems, such as philosophy, Albert Einstein to each other, they learned a lot of things. Later, they called this party for "of" form "Ethiopia. This special "college" on his later in the great achievements in science plays an important role.

He used to study Kuai cafe. There, he put a cup of coffee before, with a book in his hand, and sometimes puzzling, excitedly in a book, and write a draw would sit in an afternoon. In metropolitan cafe, Einstein finished masterpiece of scientific value.

Die 3 million cups of coffee Balzac

1 The maisonde Balzac no coffee can work. Regardless of where he paper writing, in addition to the coffee pot, always a third. Carry the coffee pot is he chooses a "special paper and a special form of pen", also, he also according to their own special processing by coffee. He has the unique experience of coffee: "once coffee into my whole body stomach began thinking is boiling up, like a chariot posed a great army in the battle began fighting." In five or six hours of continuous writing, he dead fingers like cirrus, eyes (food) began to cry, the eyes of his temple fever, nerve can’t nervous. Now he will enjoy only short rests, go to the table, lit the lamp, alcohol and coffee.

Like any stimulants, regular doses of coffee losing effectiveness, Balzac will increase dosage. He said he is every book, because of a river flow "to help his coffee" final. He said: "it is my brain stimulation 15 hours or so, this is a dangerous stimulation, it causes my stomach terrible pain." Nearly 20 years he worked everyday and abuse, make the coffee of his whole body has poisoning, he also complained its effectiveness.

A statistician estimation, Balzac created vast "human comedy, drank about 1.5 million cups of coffee. But these coffee also destroyed Balzac health (health) heart. His friends and doctors to observe the Carolingian grams of his life, think the coffee is the only reason for the death Balzac. He seemed to have feeling, he would have predicted oneself "will die from 3 million cups of coffee".