The Cloven Vaudois

Accroche :
‘On verra.’ It is an exhausting position. In Belvigne, they hold it.

Texte :
In Belvigne, on the terraces of Lavaux, Aimé has turned ‘on verra’ into a way of life, then into a trade. He tells the truth, sells the almost-true, and easy money splits him in two: on one side the Courtisan, on the other whatever is left. Between the wine-press, the band of the Adjourned and the Book of the On verra, Népomucène Ravachol writes a Vaudois satire in which saying is not always doing, and the price of a deadline kept too well is paid too late. It is also the chronicle of a village that has learnt to wait rather too well.