Le Vin de nos Vignes
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Mid-century Beaujolais memory literature.
Foillard, Léon
Le Vin de nos Vignes
Souvenirs et pages d'autrefois.
1950, Villefranche-en-Beaujolais, Éditions du Cuvier
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Overview
In-8. Pp. XIII, 3-127, (7)
This volume stands as the autumnal work of Léon Foillard (1880-1964), long regarded as a formative modern voice of Beaujolais wine culture. Issued when Foillard was seventy, the book gathers personal reminiscences, anecdotes, and reflective essays on the wine country he had championed across three decades as négociant, writer, mayor, and co-founder of the Ordre des Compagnons du Beaujolais. In Latreille's framing, it belongs to the quieter dignity of a man harvesting the vintage of his own memories. The verso of the half-title lists Foillard's earlier works, all marked épuisé, a concise sign that this volume was conceived as the mature summation of an already established regional author. Foillard's subject is Beaujolais as a lived moral and social landscape, rooted in the postwar France and its interest in wine writing, local history, memoir, and regional illustration.
Inside the book
The preface is by André Latreille (1901-1984), the Lyon historian whose framing places the work at the intersection of local history and regional literary culture. The text is structured in three sections. Part I, "Souvenirs du Jeune Âge," recounts youth in wine country - education, the death of a father, departure from the lycée, and early encounters with vignerons. Part II, "Médecine Beaujolaise," offers essays on the therapeutic and convivial virtues of wine. Part III, "Pour en finir," includes a valedictory meditation on wine as civilisation. The volume is followed by an "Anthologie bachique." It includes a frontispiece photograph, two additional photographic plates outside the pagination, woodcut illustrations by Luc Barbier in the text, all enriching the storytelling.
Condition
Original cream wrappers, titled in red and black with a small woodcut vignette on the upper cover; spine lettered in red. Uncut and in excellent conditions.
Dimensions (inches): 8 x 6 x 1/2
Why La Fenice likes it
A late-life toast to Beaujolais by one of its fiercest champions. Foillard harvests his own past: wine not just tasted, but lived, shared, and lovingly remembered.
About the author
Léon Foillard (1880-1964) was a Beaujolais writer and wine advocate, also known for works on Benoît Raclet and regional viticulture.
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