Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu, a French naval officer on leave in Paris, made it his personal mission to take a tree to his estate on Martinique on his return voyage from France.
Tad kāds franču jūras virsnieks, Gabriels Matjē de Kliē, kurš Parīzē atradās atvaļinājumā, apņēmās aizvest kafijkoku uz saviem īpašumiem Martinikā.