Magazine
The GC&E Review
La revue trimestrielle de Grand Cru and Etiquette, qui donne la parole à des universitaires, des spécialistes et des praticiens sur le vin français, la culture, la société et les codes cachés du pouvoir.
Revue publiée en anglais.
ISSN 3130-5938
The Art of Deliberate Choice
In professional life, the most powerful signals are never spoken aloud. The wine you order, the restaurant you choose, the silence you leave after a proposal: everything speaks, if you know how to read it. This inaugural issue decodes the unspoken grammar of the French professional table — why how you carry your knowledge matters more than the knowledge itself, why a Paris address is a statement before it is a dinner, and why the most genuine authority is often the quietest in the room. From the head sommelier of Le Bristol to the Chinese business dinner, from a social atlas of Paris to Jean Monnet and Madame du Deffand, two masters of power without a mandate, eight readings teach you to hear what is at stake precisely where nothing is being said. Under Edvard Munch's unsparing eye, the Review does not celebrate this system. It documents it.
71 pages • Digital edition with clickable links & Instant downloadWith Thanks To
Francesco Cosci, Wine Director, Le Bristol Paris, Paris • Jean-Charles Letellier,Founder of Vinifield, Bordeaux • Loïc Bienassis, Historian and Research Officer, IEHCA, University of Tours • Léna Guillou,Marketing Manager, Maison Legrand Filles et Fils, Paris • Jeneviève Saint-Jacques, Art de Vivre Ambassador, Paris.
Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe, Lausanne, Switzerland • Munchmuseet, Oslo, Norway • Maison Legrand Filles et Fils, Paris, France • Domaine Henri Bourgeois, Sancerre, France • The University of Chicago Press, USA • Harvard University Press, USA • Editions Points, France.
The Debt You Cannot Refuse
No corporate gift is ever free. Behind the bottle handed to a client, the hamper slipped to a partner, lies the oldest mechanism of human relations: to give is to bind, to receive is to owe, and every debt, sooner or later, comes due. A century after Marcel Mauss's The Gift, this issue asks what our professional presents really say about us, and why compliance, far from killing the business gift, has only made it rarer, more deliberate, almost aristocratic. Five voices — an anthropologist, two sociologists, a historian, and a legal counsel — decipher the silent language the powerful have never stopped speaking.
81 pages • Digital edition with clickable links & Instant downloadWith Thanks To
Pierre Dehillotte-Dejean, International Legal Counsel, specialising in contract and compliance, and PhD Candidate at the Institute for Research in Business and Property Law (IRDAP), University of Bordeaux • Jean-Édouard Grésy, Anthropologist of Law, Mediator and Founding Partner of AlterNego, Paris • Marie-Karine Schaub, Historian and Senior Lecturer (HDR) at Paris-Est Créteil University, and Member of the Centre for Research in Comparative European History (CRHEC) • Philippe Steiner, Sociologist and Emeritus Professor at Sorbonne University • Florence Weber, Sociologist, Anthropologist and Emeritus Professor at the École Normale Supérieure.
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA • Château de Poncié, France • INAO Press Office, France • Institut et Fondation Félix Vallotton, Switzerland.
Merci aux contributeurs et aux institutions qui ont rendu ces numéros possibles.
Loïc Bienassis, historien, chargé de mission à l’IEHCA, université de Tours • Francesco Cosci, Wine Director, Le Bristol Paris, Paris • Pierre Dehillotte-Dejean, juriste international spécialisé en droit des contrats et en conformité, doctorant à l’Institut de recherche en droit des affaires et du patrimoine (IRDAP), université de Bordeaux • Jean-Édouard Grésy, anthropologue du droit, médiateur et associé fondateur d’AlterNego, Paris • Léna Guillou, responsable marketing, Maison Legrand Filles et Fils, Paris • Jean-Charles Letellier, fondateur de Vinifield, Bordeaux • Jeneviève Saint-Jacques, ambassadrice de l’art de vivre, Paris • Marie-Karine Schaub, historienne, maîtresse de conférences HDR à l’université Paris-Est Créteil, membre du Centre de recherche en histoire européenne comparée (CRHEC) • Philippe Steiner, sociologue, professeur émérite à Sorbonne Université • Florence Weber, sociologue et anthropologue, professeure émérite à l’École normale supérieure
The Art Institute of Chicago, États-Unis • Château de Poncié, France • Domaine Henri Bourgeois, France • Editions Points, France • Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe, Suisse • Harvard University Press, États-Unis • Service de presse de l’INAO, France • Institut et Fondation Félix Vallotton, Suisse • Maison Legrand Filles et Fils, France • Munchmuseet, Norvège • The University of Chicago Press, États-Unis