today i ventured down gertrude st to get some coffee from de clieu, seven seeds' fitzroy franchisethreethousand told me that there is a "a faintly nautical theme harking back to the café's namesake, 
a sailor in Napoleon's army who chose to use his own drinking water rations to nurture stolen coffee plants."
a sailor in Napoleon's army who chose to use his own drinking water rations to nurture stolen coffee plants." this had me thinking 
PIRATES, but no, gabriel de clieu was no pirate but a naval officer and later a governor of guadaloupe (thank you wikipedia; apparently, too, de clieu's descendants are getting together, via facebook for heaven's sake, to set up a museum in de clieu's home town of dieppe)
PIRATES, but no, gabriel de clieu was no pirate but a naval officer and later a governor of guadaloupe (thank you wikipedia; apparently, too, de clieu's descendants are getting together, via facebook for heaven's sake, to set up a museum in de clieu's home town of dieppe)
pretty industrio-lights, courtesy of 6 degrees design aesthetic
side bar - clever cute names like de clieu
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