DINNER TIME IN FRANCE
j Until the middle of the sixteen century the dinner hour in France was 10 a.m,, with supper at 4.p.,m. Thereafter dinner was. postponed till 11 a.m. and super' lilP 7>p.‘m: ; Louis XIV. again advanced the dinner hour to noon. During the eighteenth century the dinner hour was postponed till 1 p.m., and then till 2 p.m. By. 1782 people dined generally at 4 p.m. and supped at midnight.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 10
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73DINNER TIME IN FRANCE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 10
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