you can drink in france at the age of 18.
you can drink in france at the age of 18.
at what age can you drink in france?
18
many observers that natives solely drank for the purpose of getting as drunk as possible, they believed that absolute drunkenness apparently conferred power to the drinker, and that inebriation was a desirable state. furthermore, the most prominent and oft reported aspect of native consumption of alcohol, was their determination to drink to the point of heavy intoxication. françois vachon de belmont, a sulpician missionary, wrote extensively on native alcohol consumption patterns. he argued that alcohol caused three basic changes in natives. first, it "enlivens their natural sluggishness, dispels their timidity, their sense of shame and inferiority." second, alcohol would lead them to "undertake with vigor and bravado almost any evil action such as anger, vengeance, or impurity." third, drunkenness provided natives with a "valid excuse for any evil which they commit in such a condition." a particular instance of native's desire to get as intoxicated as possible is highlighted by belmont, when natives had a limited amount of alcohol, rather than share it out equally amongst their numbers as europeans would do, they preferred to give it all to one person to drink to excess while the others remained sober. natives saw alcohol as a type of medicine that had to be taken in a large quantity if the drinker were to derive any benefit from it. they would have no interest in drinking unless they had enough alcohol to become substantially intoxicated. jesuit missionary paul le jeune reported that having procured alcohol, natives would sit and drink until the bottle was empty. chrétien le clercq a recollet missionary in new france, recognized that the central feature of native drinking was to become as intoxicated as possible. claiming that they made it a principle of honour to gorge themselves and only drink to get intoxicated. he also emphasized the role of the traders, who would purposefully get their clients as intoxicated as possible in order to deceive them more easily and rid them of their reason, this was in order to obtain furs for next to nothing. he also claimed the traders were committing fraud twice over; due to the fact they watered down the brandy they were selling to the natives. a jesuit is quoted as referring to alcohol as "a demon that robs (indians) of their reason, and so inflames their passion that, after returning from the chase richly laden with beaver-skins, instead of furnishing their families with provisions, clothing, and other necessary supplies, they drink away the entire proceeds in one day and are forced to pass the winter in nakedness, famine, and all sorts of deprivation. the same jesuit claimed that some natives even sold their children to purchase more alcohol. the social consequences of drinking included intoxicated children who beat their parents, young men who plied girls with alcohol and corrupted them while drunk, and countless acts of violence that often ended in fatalities. in 1720, one official, ignoring the horrors brought about by the liquor trade, noted that natives became more docile and submissive to the french once given liquor, and they would devote their energy to obtaining more furs. well into the 18th century, this logic behind the alcohol trade persisted; intoxicated natives would sell their furs more cheaply than sober ones. the practice of the double fraud continued, with brandy being watered down by half, allowing the traders to profit heavily from the natives.
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