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^ People went near him, except Tome Knights of Malta, and 
^ other Strangers ; and therefore he broke in a little time, and 
‘ went for England : Neither was there any fuch thing as a Cof- 
^ fee-Houfe to be feen in Paris for four Years afterwards.’ 
Thefe Fa6ls concerning the firft Ule of Coffee in France, are 
accompany’d with fb many particular Circumftances^ which M. la 
Roque was at great pains to inform himfelf of, that I do not fee 
how any of them can be call’d in queftion , and therefore I am 
afraid M. du Four has miflaken the Date of that Paper, intitled, 
Les tres Excellentes Vertues de la Meure appellee Coffe, which, he 
fays, was hawk’d about the Streets of Paris five and twenty Years 
before he wrote, that is, in 1(^58. when Coffee began to be 
drank there ; for it is plain, from what has been already faid, 
that there had never been any Coffee feen, much lefs drank, at 
that time in Paris, except what little M. Tloe^enot brought thither 
the Year before. Whatever be in that, the Paper itfelf is of the 
fame kind with the Englijh Bill already fet down j and as it has 
been publifli’d feveral times in French, and likewife in Englip, I 
think it unneceffary to inferc it here. 
To return to the Progrefs of Coffee in Paris : ^ The bad Sue- 
^ cefs of Pafeal frighted every body from the like Undertaking for 
^ about four Years time ^ but at length, in i 6 -j 6 . Malihan^ an 
^ Armenian likewife, ventured to open a CofFee-ffoufe in that 
‘ Quarter of the Town which was moft frequented by Strangers, 
^ and by fuch of the French themfelves who were the moft likely 
^ to fpend their time in fuch Places. He allow’d People to fmoke, 
‘ and fold his Coffee at the fame Price with Pafeal *, however, his 
^ fiTiall Succefs may be guefs’d at, by his having remov’d to three 
‘ or four different Places during his Stay at Paris, and his being 
^ at laft oblig’d to fly to Flolland. After his Departure, his Cot 
^ fee-Houfe continu’d however ftill in being. Gregoire^ (whofe 
‘ Name has been well known to all the Englip who have flnee 
^ that time frequented Paris) an Armenian born, and who load 
^ been either Servant to, or Partner with Malihan^ continued in 
‘ the fame Bufinefs. He took care always to keep himfelf near 
‘ the Play-houfe, to which all the idle People refort j and by fo 
^ doing, carry ’d on a Trade with fo good Succefs, that he was at 
‘ length in a Condition to purchafe a very good Houfc, in which 
^ he died in 1715. and which flill belongs to his Children. 
‘ Gregoire's good Fortune foon encouraged other Coffee-Houfes 
‘ to be fet up : The firfl; was that of Makara, a Perfian, to 
‘ whom fucceeded Gautois, a Native of Liege, and many others 
^ in different Parts of the Town ; and about the fame time a 
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