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‘ and other Cities of the Provinces thereabouts/ All the(e Par- 
ticulars, M. de la Roque tells us, he learn’d from an Eye-Witne(s 
to moft of them, who had himfclf drank Coffee at a Perion of 
Quality’s Houle at Marfeilles in 1666. 
^ In the Year 1671. a publick Shop or Houle for Coffee was^ 
‘ let up at Marfeilles^ near the Place where the Merchants meet, 
^ call’d the Lege 5 and it was the Cullom for People to fmoke 
‘ Tobacco and play, as well as to drink Coffee in it. The Con- 
‘ courle thither became loon very great. All the Turks, Arme- 
* nians, Greeks, and other Eaftern Nations, whom their Trade 
^ call’d in vad; numbers to Marfeilles^ flock’d to it •, and even the 
^ Merchants, Mailers of Ships, and other Seafaring-Men, found 
‘ fuch a Place very convenient for the Difpatch of their Bufinefs. 
^ This in a little time increas’d the Number of thele Houles ; 
^ and belides, there were Turks who lold Coffee publickly aboard 
^ the Royal Galleys. 
' In the Year following, Coffee-Houles began lirll to be let 
' up at Paris y and it was then but a very few Years lince the 
‘ Name of that Lic|uor had ever been fo much as heard of there. 
^ Some tell us indeed, that M. Thevenot, at his Return from the 
^ Eall, brought a fmall Quantity of Berries home with him, 
^ and made fome of his Friends talle of the Drink which the 
* Turks prepar’d with them •, but no more can be inferr’d from 
^ this, than from the Coffee M. la Roque made at Marfeilles j 
^ and it is certain, that, till the Embaffy of Soliman Aga from the 
‘ Grand Seignior to houis the Fourteenth in the generality 
^ of Paris did not know there was fuch a thing as Coflee in the 
^ World. That Ambaffador, and thole of his Retinue, brought 
a great Quantity of Coffee along with them and as the Pari- 
‘ fans were very curious to go and flare at them, and the better 
^ Sort to get into the Ambaffador’s Hotel 5 Coffee was prefented 
^ to all that came : and by this means many became lo accuflom’d 
‘ to it by frecjuent drinking, and others found fo much Benefit 
‘ by it, that they could not afterwards leave off the Ufe of it. 
^ The Ambaffador flay’d near a Year at Paris, and that was long 
^ enough, in the way he uled, for Coffee to be brought a little 
^ in Vogue. 
^ After his Departure, this Cullom was kept up by many, 
‘ who found means to have Coffee fent them from Marfeilles 
‘ and other Places j and in 1672. Pafcal an Armenian by Birth, 
‘ began to lell it publickly in the Poire St, Germain, and afterwards 
^ kept a publick Coffee-Houle in another Quarter of the Town, 
^ where he fold Coffee for Twopence Halfpenny a Difli \ but few 
