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30 not 50 but yea, still a crazy amount. "Voltaire was also known to have been an advocate for coffee, as he was purported to have drunk it at least 30 times p
by pdenya 13y ago
30 not 50 but yea, still a crazy amount.
"Voltaire was also known to have been an advocate for coffee, as he was purported to have drunk it at least 30 times per day. It has been suggested that high amounts of caffeine acted as a mental stimulant to his creativity." - wikipedia
- gruseom 13y agoIf you follow Wikipedia's source for that, here is what it actually says: In France, meanwhile, Voltaire was reputedly downing between 50 and 72 cups of coffee a day Encyclopedia authors shouldn't cut numbers in half. In any case, the reported number varies wildly and I've never been able to track down a source for it. They're probably all made up.
- mbell 13y agoIt seems to me that the measurement here comes into question. What is a cup now vs what is a cup then? At what brew strength? etc.
- anthuswilliams 13y agoWhen I first heard this claim, it was about the French author Honoré de Balzac. This claim about Voltaire makes me doubt both. I'm not saying that it's impossible to have two famous French writers habitually drinking an atypically obscene amount of coffee, just that it makes the claim seem more dubious.