Famous Coffee Drinkers

Coffee gives people energy and coffee brings people together.

This certainly applies to some celebrities as well. Voltaire drank as many as 50 cups of coffee a day. Beethoven wanted 60 coffee beans in a cup of coffee. Balzac traversed all of Paris to get three types of coffee from three different shops to make his favorite blend that kept him awake from midnight to noon. He declared that when he drank coffee, the paper was covered with ink.

The Boston Tea Party was secretly planned in a coffee house. A few years later, in 1789, Desmoulins unleashed a revolution when he jumped onto a table in Cafe Foy in Paris to speak; two days later, the Bastille was stormed.

"Strong coffee, in large quantities, keeps me awake," said Napoleon, who preferred a Brazilian blend.

Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir wrote in Les Deux Magots, a typical Left Bank café, while the Beat poets drank coffee and held conversations in Caffe Trieste and the Bagel Shop in San Francisco. Impressionism, surrealism, cubism, and existentialism also partly originated in these cafés and coffee houses.