The Slang of the French Drinkers | Jean-Marc Richard

Alcohol inspires pens, and knows how to make the French language throb. If there are drinking songs, there is also a whole colorful language used by hearty drinkers during their libations. In this colorful and flavorful work, the author has gathered some five hundred picturesque and expressive expressions from about a hundred authors, between the early 20th century and the early 21st century. Writers, columnists, crime novelists or comic book authors, poets, songwriters: you will come across Alphonse Boudard, Auguste Le Breton, Maurice Fombeure, Jean Galtier-Boissière, René Fallet, Louis Forton, San Antonio, Robert Giraud, Albert Simonin, Louis Calaferte, Clément Lépidis, François Caradec, Claude Duneton, François Cérésa, but also Serge Gainsbourg, Georges Brassens, or Pierre Perret... An erudite cocktail full of humor and flavor to be enjoyed without thirst.