>Voltaire was also known to have been an advocate for coffee, as he was reported to have drunk it 50–72 times per day. It has been suggested that high amounts of caffeine acted as a mental stimulant to his creativity.
I love Voltaire but this guy's teeth must have been stained to shit
>intelligent, rich, high society French man spreading seditious nonsense while enjoying the aristocratic culture that France had before it burned its social capital in the revolution
Impossible to be more smug than this. The fucker actually died 1 year before it kicked off
Hudson Hall
IIRC a “cup of coffee” back then was much, much smaller. Man still drank enough caffeine to stun a horse but it wasn’t 50 full-sized modern day mugs
Tyler Thomas
Cool story. Any source on this?
Nicholas Watson
Didn't Balzac have a similar coffee intake? I remember reading that somewhere.