Le vigneronnage en Beaujolais
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A unique sharecropping system, a later note by the author and crisis-year relevance.
Myard, François
Le vigneronnage en Beaujolais
1907, Lyon, Imprimeries Réunies
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Overview
An academic publication in law, on the subject of vigneronnage, the wine-growing system based on sharecropping, peculiar to the Beaujolais and its immediate Burgundian neighbors. As presented here, vigneronnage - a form of métayage à moitié fruits whose juridical contours had solidified by the eighteenth century - bound a landowner and a working vigneron in partnership over a small mixed holding, with costs shared and the harvest divided equally. It appears as both contractual framework and social order, one that endured for centuries before the late nineteenth-century viticultural crisis strained it toward collapse. The work stands at the meeting point of legal scholarship and near-contemporary rural crisis.
Inside the book
The study is arranged in three substantial parts: historical, legal, and economic-social. It traces Beaujolais viticulture from the Gallo-Roman period through the Ancien Régime, then examines the formation, proof, obligations, guarantees, accounting, prescription, third-party relations, and dissolution of the vigneronnage contract. The final section turns to crisis conditions: mévente, collapsing revenues, abandoned contracts, and fraud in the wine trade, supported by parliamentary enquiry material of 26 April 1907. It concludes with an appendix on vigneron housing and an annex reproducing in full the twenty-one-article Bail à vigneronnage de l'Hospice civil de Beaujeu, approved at Lyon on 31 October 1900.
Why La Fenice likes it
A legal twist on Beaujolais: vigneronnage, a uniquely local sharecropping system, captured just as it slips from practice into memory.
Condition Report
Pp. [1] f.e., (4), 338, [1] r.e.
Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt fleurs-de-lis in two compartments, spine lettered in gilt. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to Louis Chevrotton, identified as "mon cousin": "À mon cousin Louis Chevrotton, en gage d'affection sincère et en souvenir des bonnes heures passées ensemble lors de son séjour en France 1920-21." Signed F. Myard. Calf rubbed at the extremities, with darkening and surface scuffing to the upper board. Very mild toning, very good.
Dimensions (inches): 10 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2
About the author
François Myard, active in the early 20th century, was a French legal scholar and Docteur en Droit.
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