But, until 1760s Paris, those places were not restaurants. And indeed, even in 1760s Paris, originally a “restaurant” referred to a type of soup. In this episode, historian Rebecca Spang ...

In my book, “The Invention of the Restaurant,” I showed that modern restaurants first appeared in 1760s Paris. For the past 200 years, they have offered a crucial public space for the practice ...

and the places that sold this healing broth in the 1760s were also called “health houses.” The first restaurant as we know it today opened in Paris in 1765 on the Rue des Poulies, today the ...

But sometime in the 1760s, the merchant class of Paris developed a taste for healthy light broths known as restoratives, or restaurants. By the 1780s, this new Parisian "health food" craze led ...

Jeanne du Barry was a courtesan in 1760s Paris who became Louis XV’s favourite mistress. She has been portrayed on screen numerous times, including in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette ...