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Tea, which soothes…and strengthens the reason…

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This formula, used by Antoine Furetière in his Dictionnaire universel of 1690, reminds us that tea was first assimilated in Europe to a salutary remedy with a thousand virtues. And to specify that the golden beverage "gives new strength to drink". It represents an eminently literary drink having stimulated the imagination of many authors. Thus one can read in the Journal des Goncourt that "it would be interesting if an intelligent man of letters wrote several books of imagination: one on a coffee diet, another on a tea diet, another on a wine and alcohol diet, and that he studied on him the influences of these stimulants on his literature and that he shared them with the public... As for me, if ever I write my obscene study, I will write it on tea".
But tea, which is "rooted" in an ancestral tradition, has many other facets: Chinese legends associate it with the fortuitous discovery of a fabulous emperor with an ox's head; the British East India Company financed it for a time through opium trafficking; the Japanese made it the subject of a refined ceremony; North American independence activists, a casus belli... And if you don't know chanoyu, bandège or calin - without a circumflex accent - consult the index of this work.
The history of tea is told through words… Not to mention the many illustrations.

Number of pages: 141 pages
Publisher: Honoré Champion
Release date: 10/15/2015
Weight: 0.116 Kg
Dimensions: 10.6cm × 17.5cm × 0.9cm

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