Ponchon (Raoul): Raoul Ponchon is a French poet (La Roche-sur-Yon 1848 - Paris 1937). He is the author of some 1920 verses on the theme of drinking and eating, published in daily newspapers and excerpts from which are collected in the Muse au cabaret, XNUMX. He nevertheless proclaimed the superiority of the bottle over the saucepan ( “We must eat to drink and not drink to eat”).
He was elected academician Goncourt in 1924.
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