Jean Donneau de Visé, Les Costeaux, ou les marquis frians

Peter William Shoemaker

Jean Donneau de Visé, Les Costeaux, ou les marquis frians

Edited by Peter William Shoemaker

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Critical Texts 31

Modern Humanities Research Association

1 June 2013 • 92pp

ISBN: 978-1-907322-33-4 (paperback) • RRP £14.99, $19.99, €17.99

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A critical edition of the 1665 one-act gastronomical play Les Costeaux, ou les marquis frians. Les Costeaux has often been attributed to Claude Deschamps Villiers, a minor playwright associated with the Troupe royale of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris. There are good reasons to doubt this attribution, however, and Jean Donneau de Visé is a much more plausible candidate.

The plot of Les Costeaux revolves around the thinnest of pretexts. Having invited the young Lucille and her mother to dine with him in private, Thersandre has a dilemma: what to do about the parasitic noblemen who regularly visit his table in order to obtain a free meal. Instead of immediately dispatching the freeloaders, Thersandre's maître d'hôtel decides to teach them a lesson by forcing them to wait until the dinner hour has passed before sending them on their way. The bulk of the play thus consists of a group of hungry seventeenth-century nobles discussing the art of fine dining while waiting for a dinner that never arrives. There no solid evidence that the play was ever produced, and it may well have been written to read on the page, rather than performed on the stage. While quite amusing and well-written, the text is primarily interesting as a document that sheds light on seventeenth-century manners, specifically the culinary habits of the upper echelons of polite society.

Reviews:

‘Complemented with a plethora of detailed endnotes providing much detail about areas such as culinary practice (from wild-duck recipes to the oenophilic topography of France), this edition has much to offer scholars of, and all those interested in, the early modern period.’ — Paul Scott, French Studies 69, 2015, 527

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i-iv	Front Matter Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.1	Cite
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v-v	Table of Contents Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.2	Cite
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vi-vi	Acknowledgements Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.3	Cite
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vii-viii	Abbreviations Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.4	Cite
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1-26	Introduction Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.5	Cite
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27-30	Establishment of the Text and Editorial Practice Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.6	Cite
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31-62	Les Costeaux Ou Les Marquis Frians. Comedie. Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.7	Cite
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63-63	Emendations To the Text Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.8	Cite
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64-68	NOTES TO THE TEXT Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.9	Cite
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69-78	Appendix Documents Related To the Ordre Des Coteaux Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.10	Cite
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79-82	Bibliography Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.11	Cite
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83-84	Back Matter Peter William Shoemaker doi:10.2307/j.ctt3fgwg3.12	Cite
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