Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: an exceptional example from the 1960 wine & viticulture work

Moi, je suis Vigneron

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  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: an exceptional example from the 1960 wine & viticulture work
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a rare glimpse into the 1960 wine & viticulture copy
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a singularly preserved detail from the 1960 wine & viticulture text
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: an uncommon visual fragment of the 1960 wine & viticulture printed work
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a precious visual instance of the 1960 wine & viticulture exemplar
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a rare glimpse into the 1960 wine & viticulture publication
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: an uncommon visual fragment of the 1960 wine & viticulture volume
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a distinctive element from the 1960 wine & viticulture volume
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a distinctive element from the 1960 wine & viticulture copy
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a scarce illustrative detail of the 1960 wine & viticulture edition
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: an uncommon visual fragment of the 1960 wine & viticulture text
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: a finely chosen detail from the 1960 wine & viticulture piece
  • Moi, je suis Vigneron by Lagrange, André: an uncommon representative view of the 1960 wine & viticulture publication
Moi, je suis Vigneron

Vineyard memory and expertise, with a lyric and human tone.

Lagrange, André

Moi, je suis Vigneron
Automated English translation:

I, I Am a Winegrower.

1960, Villefranche-en-Beaujolais, Éditions du Cuvier, Jean Guillermet

First Edition

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Overview

Begun in 1957 after extended research among Burgundy's wine-growing communes, it takes documentary ambition into literary form through the voice of le Pere Toine, a vigneron of Vinzelles in the Cote Chalonnaise. Across twelve months he recounts the labour, speech, and customs of a Burgundian village shaped by the vine, giving the book its distinctive place between regional literature and viticultural testimony. Each chapter corresponds to a month and takes its subtitle from the song of a bird. The sequence is followed by an Appendix, an Abreviations section, a Souvenir, and an In Memoriam.

Inside the book

Limited edition of 50 copies reserved for family, friends, and collaborators; this copy being the exemplaire de dedicace, no. 4, printed for Monsieur E. Jalabert. The text interweaves the fiction of le Pere Toine's daily life with detailed ethnographic material on viticultural tools, dialect vocabulary, folk songs with musical notation, saints' days, pruning methods, vine training on American rootstocks, the making of vin de Bourgogne, and the rituals of the Saint-Vincent confrerie. Pages 138-139 include a dialogue on American vines, grafting, and the changes brought by phylloxera, including the old vigneron's attachment to the serpette over secateurs. The photographic frontispiece represents an elderly vigneron with wicker hotte, and a motto. The cut-out of a newspaper review praising the book's has been preserved.

Why La Fenice likes it

Vineyard memory and expertise, rendered with a very human tone. A private edition, circulated among family and friends, gathering the hard life of a vigneron with a lyrical touch: tools, songs, grafts, folk stories, saints to pray to - and the phylloxera debates that shadowed an entire generation.
Condition Report

Pp. 359, (1), (1) photographic plate at the frontispice

Original wrappers, title in red. Overall, a near-mint copy.

Dimensions (inches): 9 x 6 1/4 x 3/4
About the author

André Lagrange (1909-1959) was a Burgundian writer and researcher associated with the Musée du Vin de Bourgogne at Beaune.
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