we use, and i use today, café to be a generic place where one drinks, but in fact in the period that we're considering, at the end of the nineteenth century, people were clever enough to realize that--and aware of their surroundings enough--to know that the cafés are where the wealthy people went, on the big boulevards of paris or on the rue de la république in lyon, or in the fancy neighborhoods of almost every large city, and ordinary people went to drink in places where they did not often serve café because it was so expensive, and if they did it was a fairly rare thing because café was expensive; drink, as we'll see in awhile, cost absolutely nothing.