Jésus et le bon vin et autres notes sur le Cymbalum Mundi

This article includes five notes related to 1. the subject of wine in the first dialogue of the Cymbalum; 2. the two dogs in the fourth dialogue and the Epicurean topos related to past good and evil; 3. a description of the Cymbalum by Mersenne, who understood its main target to be Christ; 4. a mention by Postel of the “first authors” of the Cymbalum?; 5. a little-known source of documents from 1829 on the reception of the Cymbalum.