Mon Docteur, Le Vin - Hardcover

Derys, Gaston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300101333 ISBN 13: 9780300101331

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This delightful little volume, first published in French in 1936, extols the many joys and benefits of wine. Wine drinkers will take pleasure in Gaston Derys's quaint appreciation of the grape, and art lovers will admire Raoul Dufy's joyful watercolors. Reflecting the exuberance and elan of an earlier day, Derys takes us back to a time when the doctor's favored prescription was an amiable glass of wine.
In Derys's ode to wine, here translated into English, we discover that the medicinal and therapeutic uses of wine are many: it assists in fighting typhoid, infant sicknesses, and diabetes; it exerts a positive effect on one's character, beauty, and creativity: and it lends a fortifying power to athletes and soldiers. Supported by the comments of French doctors as well as Dufy's beautifully reproduced paintings, Derys's argument to raise a glass of wine becomes pleasantly irrefutable.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Modernity

From the Back Cover:

"In the 1930s a group of leading French doctors set out to convince the rest of the world that wine was the best medicine you could have, and Benjamin Ivry's delightful translation of Mon Docteur le Vin is just what the doctor ordered. Paul Lukacs's introduction provides an essential historical context that reveals as much about the country as it does about wine itself."-Donald and Petie Kladstrup, authors of Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300101333
• ISBN 13: 9780300101331
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64
• Illustrator: Dufy Raoul