3.5. French French people started drinking coffee later than Italian and British people. In 1669, a Turkish ambassador frequently held splendid party and introduced coffee, and it caused a Turkey boom. Some French doctors were afraid of the insistence that coffee had the medicinal effect and claimed that coffee had the bad effect on health. However, six years later, another French doctor showed a book in support of coffee. In 1689, Francesco Procopio Cutò, an immigrant from Italy opened a coffeehouse, Le Procope in Paris, and coffeehouses sent down roots in French. French people made coffee with …show more content…
There were coffee shops in main cities in 1721. The habit of drinking coffee had been exclusively limited to the upper class for a while. Many doctors warned that coffee could be the cause of infertility and stillbirth. In 1777, the popularity of coffee looked exceeding reasonable limits to Frederick II. He issued a statement to defend the most traditional drink, beer. Its contents were that “the increase in the amount of coffee which my subjects consumed and as a result, the increase in money flowed out of the country is observed; they are uncomfortable; my subjects should drink beer.” Four years later, he forbade the roasting of coffee in the non-state-owned factory. However, the poor used roasted chicory root, figs, wheat or corn to substitute. There were also some people who intends to secretly roasting the genuine and coffee finally