Rainbow Coffee House
The Rainbow Coffee House was a famous coffee house in London on Fleet Street . It was opened by James Farr in 1657, it was the second coffee house in London. Farr was originally a hairdresser.
James Farr took some of the business ideas from Pasqua Rosee (1651-1656) who created the first coffee house in London in 1652. The Rainbow Coffee House was a meeting place for Freemasons and French Huguenot refugees who use the café to exchange views.
Notable visitors and guests of the Rainbow Coffee House
Many Huguenots were associated with the Rainbow Coffee House. However, there were also other nationalities such as German and English visitors.
French exiles
- Paul Colomiès (1638–1692)
- César de Missy (1703-1775)
- John Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744)
- Pierre des Maizeaux (1673-1745)
- David Durand (1680–1763)
- Peter Anthony Motteux (1663-1718)
- Michel de La Roche (1710–1731)
- Voltaire (1694–1778)
Other
- Anthony Collins (1676-1729)
- Richard Mead (1673-1754)
- Daniel Maichel (1693–1752)
- Thomas Sprat (1635-1713)
- John Toland (1670-1722)
Web links
- Rainbow Coffee House. John Timbs. Club Life of London Vol. II London, 1866, online
- The Project Gutenberg, p. 14
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christopher Hibbert; Ben Weinreb; John & Julia Keay: The London Encyclopaedia. 3rd edition. Pan Macmillan, London, 2010 ISBN 1-4050-4925-1 , p. 681
- ↑ Bennett Alan Weinberg; Bonnie K. Bealer: The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug. Routledge Chapman & Hall 2001, ISBN 0-4159-2722-6 , p. 154
- ↑ JJ O'Connor; EF Robertson: London Coffee houses and mathematics . Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ↑ Rosee, Pasqua (fl. 1651-1656), coffee-house keeper by Brian Cowan. Oxford University Press, online
- ^ Reinhart Koselleck: Critique and Crisis . Berg, Oxford 1988, ISBN 085496 535 1 , p. 64.
- ^ Dunan-Page, Anne: The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750 . Ashgate, 2006, p. 166.