« Le vin est bon qui en prend par raison ». Le vin dans les recueils de proverbes français et les fabliaux

Abstract

Whoever lives at ease (lord, priest, bourgeois) drinks wine. The regular consumer knows how to drink as well as the rituals and social practices that go with wine. Drinking too much, however, is degrading, making a laughing stock of a man, and an object of revulsion a woman. Wine reinforces the social mythology described in joke-tales and all the prudent wisdom proverbs that make fun of the favorite comic literature targets, such as the jealous husband, wanton woman, avaricious priest, lustful monk, stupid peasant and so on...

Keywords

• Oïl language
• love of life
• tavern
• deception
• misadventure