"The place of cafes in France's revolutionary history"
             The cafés in France functioned as public spaces where people, especially the working class, could gather and converse. The café allowed many of the working class people an escape from their poor living conditions at home. The people needed a safe haven, a retreat from the pressures and hardships of everyday life. When these large groups of people gathered at the cafés, politics was usually part of their conversation. Haine suggest in his book, The World of the Paris Café, that the cafés in France played a major role in the spawning of revolutions and the development of revolutionary ideas and policies. Haine argues that the cafes served three major roles in the French revolutions of the nineteenth-century. The cafés were shelter for working class people and political activist, incubators for revolutionary ideas, and a stage where changes and politics of nineteenth century France could be played out. The cafés during the revolutionary period of 1789-1914 did influence the politics of the nineteenth-century France, providing a place for information to spread and conversation to flourish. These French cafes brought together large groups of working class people whom spark revolutions and brought about changes in their government.
             Although people of power mostly drove the political instability of France during the nineteenth century, the masses did have influence. Many people that attended cafés worked in factories for long fourteen hour days, six to seven days a week. The only relaxation the workers received was going to a café with fellow co-workers and friends to drink, eat, and discuss the events of the day. Most of these working class men did not make important or specific individual changes in the government of France; however, the cafés did give the workers a sense of class identity ...