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Tonight's Pairing

The Seventh Function of Language

Laurent Binet
Intellectualnoir-inflectedplayful
The Pour
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Bernard Baudry Chinon Les Granges
Medium-bodied red🇫🇷 Loire Valley, France · Cabernet Franc

Crunchy red fruit, a pencil-shaving edge, and bright acidity make this a classic Parisian bistro red. It fits the Left Bank cafés and lecture halls where Bayard and Herzog question philosophers about Barthes's death.

The Mood

A postmodern mystery that opens with the death of Roland Barthes in 1980 Paris, as Inspector Jacques Bayard and young semiotician Simon Herzog chase a missing document through the world of French theory. Mischievous and erudite, it turns Foucault, Derrida, and Eco into suspects and treats language as a weapon.

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