EditorialDis-donc, ma femme.... je crois que nous avons tort de laisser manger tant de raisin que ?a ? Toto....., from En Vendanges, published in Le Charivari, September 21, 1859.
EditorialJapanese raisin tree or sweet hovenia, Hovenia dulcis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a botanical illustration by John Curtis from William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, Samuel Curtis, London, 1822.
EditorialTapestry: Bacchus et Arainne, Bacchus chang? en raisin, from The Loves of the Gods Series; Woven after cartoons by Fran?ois Boucher, French, 1703 - 1770, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French, 1686 - 1755, and Nicolas Besnier, French, 1714...
EditorialBagni di Lucca, poet Heinrich Heine stayed in this house and complained about the English beauties: " Plumpuddings with raisin-eyes, roastbeef busoms festooned with strips of horse-radish.. ".