1 6 INTRODUCTION INTO EUROPE. 



The London coffee-houses, however, soon assumed the 

 additional character of Taverns also, other liquors being 

 added 'to the fare, thereby losing their attraction for the 

 temperately inclined, the Cafe or coffee-house proper 

 flourishing only for any length of time in Paris alone. 

 "But while the people of London began to complain that 

 the company to be found in their coffee-houses was some- 

 what mixed, those of the Parisians from the Very first 

 continued to be the most elegant and select places of 

 resort even to the present day. Before their doors the 

 equipages of the nobility stopped, while ladies of the 

 highest rank drank their coffee without alighting, and the 

 Salons within were crowded with nobles, philosophers, 

 poetS) artists and litterateurs. 



The sale of Coffee in a liquid form is claimed to have 

 been first introduced to Holland by the aforementioned 

 Rossie in 1664, from whence its use soon spread 

 throughout Germany and other parts of the continent 

 of Europe. While to Vienna the Turks themselves 

 first introduced coffee in 1683, under somewhat singular 

 circumstances. In that year the Moslems besieged that 

 city with an enormous force, the siege being raised, 

 as history tells, by the Polish King, John Sobieski, and 

 the Moslem hordes completely routed. Large quantities 

 of coffee were found in their deserted camp, and pre- 

 sented to one Kolschutski as a reward for the heroic 

 services he had rendered during the investment of the 

 city, and utilized by him in the establishment of the first 

 Coffee-house in Vienna. 



Coffee-houses have been known in the United States 

 from an early period in its history, but for a long time 

 New Orleans was the only city where they existed in 

 their true character, the manner being learned from Paris. 

 Among the American people, however, the beverage has 



