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Christiane Mervaud, « Du nectar pour Voltaire », Dix-Huitième Siècle, ID : 10.3406/dhs.1997.2166
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Christiane Mervaud : Nectar for Voltaire. From a historical or biographical point of view, Voltaire's Correspondence is full of information about the consumption of wine at the Delices and Ferney, on the supply circuits, the problems of conservation, and the tastes of Voltaire and Mme Denis. For Voltaire, who "liked drinking", wine plays an important role as a convivial element in his fiction. His imagination is nourished by the Biblical symbolism of vines and wine. He was horrified by transsubstantiation, by wine changed into the blood of Christ, and he dreamed of other communions, exhorting philosophers to labour in "the Lord's vineyard", thus inviting them to philosophical libations.