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the real hit of the eighteenth century
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and the emergence in Britain of the coffee house
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where politics is done.
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We use, and I use today,
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cafe to be a generic place where one drinks,
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but in fact in the period that we're considering,
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at the end of the nineteenth century,
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people were clever enough to realize that
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--and aware of their surroundings enough
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--to know that the cafes are
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where the wealthy people went,
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on the big boulevards of Paris