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The first edition of the Histoire comique de Francion by Charles Sorel (1623) contains numerous references to the eating and drinking. My study examines narrative sequences focused on a fluctuation between deprivation and abundance, frustration and jouissance. In addition to the domain of food, I consider allusions to sexuality and knowledge, insofar as they share the same narrative paradigm, and shed light on each other. This analysis also shows how Sorel relates ambivalent references to food to some of his moral claims, expressed through subversive uses of the tradition of comic fiction. The four books added for the 1626 and 1633 editions of Francion can be perceived as a wavering attempt to displace Bacchus, who presides over the protagonist’s birth and is emblematic of the various immoderations in the first edition.
Keywords: Eating and drinking, Deprivation, Abundance, Temperance, Drunkenness, Carnivalesque, XVIIth century, Charles Sorel, Manger et boire, Privation, Abondance, Tempérance, Ivresse, Carnavalesque, XVIIe siècle, Francion, Francion, Charles Sorel
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This article investigates chocolate in Ancien Régime society through a selection of treatises, dictionaries, and novels from the Enlightenment. These texts provide valuable information on its benefits, preparation, and consumption – revealing new dietary as well as social rituals, closely linked to the libertine imagination. In addition, the novels inform the evolution of descriptive practices. The analysis of short excerpts enables us to propose a few topoi, such as “to take one’s chocolate,” “to invite to take chocolate,” “to feel pleasure with chocolate” or “(to attempt) to administer poison or narcotic in chocolate.”
Keywords: chocolate, Enlightenment, libertine novel, poisoning, chocolat, Lumières, roman libertin, empoisonnement
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Keywords: Pancatantra Kalila et Dimna transmission culturelle composition textuelle