Cafe Lion - Cafe Lion

Japanese: カフェー・ライオン - かふぇーらいおん
Cafe Lion - Cafe Lion

…The word “cafe” originally meant “coffee,” but it eventually came to mean “a shop that serves coffee.” It seems that such shops had already existed in Mecca, Arabia, in the 15th century, but they spread to Europe through Egypt and Turkey, and through Venice. In France, they first appeared in Marseille, a trading port with the Middle East, in the mid-17th century. In 1672, a simple street café appeared in Paris, but in 1686, a Sicilian named Procope opened a full-scale shop on what is now the Rue de la Comédie, which marked the beginning of the rise of cafés. …

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Café Lion" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…〈カフェ〉とはもともと〈コーヒー〉を意味していたが,やがて転じて〈コーヒーを飲ませる店〉をも指すようになった。このような店は,アラビアのメッカでは,すでに15世紀から存在していたらしいが,エジプト,トルコを経,ベネチアを窓口としてヨーロッパに伝わった。フランスでは,17世紀半ば,中東との貿易港マルセイユにまず姿を現す。1672年,パリにも,ごく簡単な屋台のカフェが出現したが,1686年シチリアの人プロコープProcopeが,現在のアンシエンヌ・コメディ街に本格的な店を構えたのが,カフェ隆盛の発端となった。…

※「カフェー・ライオン」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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