Coffee and Revolution in the Cour du Commerce-de-Saint-André
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This is still the original rough recording (editing will come soon!) because I wanted to get a new podcast out to you before the end of the month. Wow, did April ever whoosh past in a blaze of work & sunshine here in Paris! Today, we're walking through a gorgeously historic "passage" near Métro  Odéon on the Left Bank--we look at coffee in the 1600s, and brilliant Revolutionaries like the printer Marat and the orator Danton. By Monday, I'll have some images up on my website, to give you a better feel for the history here under our feet. 
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