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Drunkenness in Early Modern France (XVI - XVIIIth century)
2010
From the 16th to the 18th century, a deeply rooted tradition of open and celebrative inebriation existed in the kingdom of France. Society permitted collective, festive and social drinking. But many opposed drunkenness. In France at that time, absolute monarchy from divine right was developing, and the fundamental opposition came from religious and civic powers. Drunkenness was seen either as a sin or as a vice of variable severity that drove others to commit it as well. From 1536, a connection was made between sin and crime: inebriation became an auxiliary crime. However, in face of the culture of inebriation, religious and political authorities acted pragmatically and did not really attem…
La part maudite de Georges Bataille
2015
George Bataille's La Part maudite was published in 1949. In the post-war period, this text was disconcerting. Poorly understood, it has been discredited by both specialists and readers of Bataille. All the more reason to return this essential text and its dream of pure expenditure to its rightful place.