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Vive le café! Inside France’s specialty coffee revolution

How France is harnessing deep gastronomic traditions to forge a unique specialty coffee movement based on terroir, agronomy and craft

An aerial view of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris | Photo credit: Eric Isselee/Shutterstock

In a country of world-famous culinary traditions and culture, coffee quality often makes headlines in France for all the wrong reasons, but times are changing. Tobias Pearce explores the new wave of artisans harnessing France’s deep history of gastronomy, terroir and craft to usher in a new era of specialty coffee excellence

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