untry presbytery, where the good cure was quietly
turning his hand coffee-roaster. The emperor asked him, "What are you
doing there, abbe?" "Sire", replied the priest, "I am doing like you. I
am burning the colonial fodder." Charlet (1792-1845) made a lithograph
of the incident.

Several French poet-musicians resorted to music to celebrate coffee.
Brittany has its own songs in praise of coffee, as have other French
provinces. There are many epics, rhapsodies, and cantatas--and even a
comic opera by Meilhat, music by Deffes, bearing the title, _Le Cafe du
Roi_, produced at the Theatre Lyrique, November 16, 1861.

[Illustration: "MAD DOG IN A COFFEE HOUSE"--CARICATURE BY ROWLANDSON]

Fuzelier wrote, in honor of coffee, a cantata, set to music by Bernier.
This is the burden of the poet's song:

Ah coffee, what climes yet unknown,
Ignore the clear fires that thy vapors inspire!
Thou countest, in thy vast empire
Those realms that Bacchus' reign disown.
Favored liquid, which fills all my soul with delights,
Thy enchantments to life happy hours persuade,
We vanquish e'en sleep by thy fortunate aid,
Thou hast rescued the hours sleep would rob from our nights.
Favored liquid which fills all my soul with delights,
Thy enchantments to life happy hours persuade.

Oh liquid that I love,
Triumphant stream of sable,
E'en for the gods above,
Drive nectar from the table.
Make thou relentless war
On treacherous juices sly,
Let earth taste and adore
The sweet calm of the sky.
Oh liquid that I love,
Triumphant stream of sable,
E'en for the gods above,
Drive nectar from the table.

During the early vogue of the cafe in Paris, a _chanson_, entitled
_Coffee_, reproduced here, was set to music with accompaniment for the
piano by M.H. Colet, a professor of harmony at the Conservatoire.
Printed in the form of a placard, and put up in cafes, it received the
approbation of, and was signed by, de Voyer d'Argenson, at that time
(1711) lieutenant of police. The poetry is not irreproachable. It can
hardly be attributed to any of the well known poets of the time; but
rather to one of those bohemian rimesters that wrote all too abundantly
on all sorts of subjects. It is the development of a theory concerning
the properties of coffee and the best method of making it. It is
interesting to note that the uses of advertising were known and
appreciated in Paris in 1711; for in the _cha