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Is wine bad for your health? Is it good?
Up to how many glasses per week?
These are questions to which science (as well as dentist’s waiting room magazines) have been giving answers, even conflicting ones, for years.
In France tho, the answer had already been given by none other than Luis Pasteur in 1866, when he wrote in his essay Etude du vin (study on wine) that this is:
«the healthiest and most hygienic of beverages».
How could one not listen to the recommendations of one of the most eminent scientists in history?
So, it was decided to serve wine in school canteens too.
Wine was considered at that time an excellent tonic, a remedy against coldness (an urban legend that dies hard even today…), a drink that could only benefit the enfants.
But it didn’t take long for someone to start thinking that, maybe, providing booze to kids wasn’t a great idea.
Until, in 1956, the then vice-premier Pierre Mendes France issued a circular in which wine was prohibited… to children under 14 years of age.
That’s already something, right?
The total abolition of wine in French school canteens, at any age or grade level, occurred only in 1981 at the behest of the President François Mitterrand.
it took quite some time, but in the end it was understood that alcohol for minors is anything but healthy and hygienic.
With all due respect to Pasteur, who remains a genius in the history of humanity.
However, don’t drink too much wine.
Don’t drink it at all if you are underage.
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