"By Degas's and Manet's day, many... emporia were called "brasseries," since they featured beer (the term derives from copper brewing vats). Beer had not been the prominent drink in Paris before 1848, for Parisians associated it with peasants and small-town folk. This became a positive factor, however, when enthusiasm for the common man developed in the wake of the revolution of 1848. The provincials who flocked to Paris in the Second Empire brought with them their taste for beer, and so did the greatly increased number of foreign visitors, especially those from the Lowlands, Germany, and Great Britain. Many traditionalists lamented the newly won prominence of beer, considered a provincial and foreign habit when compared to wine."
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Robert L. Herbert, Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Partisan Society (1988)
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