Statistics for occurrence #1 of “France” in chapter 6, entry fork of Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia:
...in Italy from 1458 to 1490.
An Italian at the court of Matthias Corvinas, king of Hungary, notices the lack of the fork in the table furniture of the king.
A century after, they were not known in France or Sweden.
Coryat, in his Crudities, 1611, says: I observed a custom in all those Italian cities and towns through which I passed, that is not vsed in any other country that I saw in my traules,...
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| † | France (France) | 17,744 | 692 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
| France (Idaho, United States) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
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