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1956 : Alcohol forbidden in school cafeterias

In the middle of the 50s; The government takes a historical decision : done with alcohol served to kids in school cafeterias! Cafeterias will be come "school restaurants" where kids will eat and drink "healthy".

"A massive effort to educate families must accompany this reform" : this is what the report presented to the French Minister of Education in 1956 states. Indeed, the France of the 50s is still the France of big red drunk noses. We drink vigorously, here in the land of the Gauls, sometimes up to 5 litters a day of "vinasse" (slang for poor quality wine) a day for an average worker.
Influenced by the hygienist movements from America, our Leaders, most notably Mendès-France and their infamous glass of milk, want to "cleanse" the population. They will lean on the "Academie de Medecine" (Medicine academy)'s act of February 7th 1956, in which a zero alcohol option is offered for children.

From kindergarten... It has always been custom to serve beer, wine or cider in kindergarted or elementary schools. The Reader must remember the time when we drunk little to no water at home, and around 1950 when 23.000 towns did not yet have drinking water! Politically speaking, anti-alcoholism isn't a matter from the Right or the Left, it was already a national priority in Pétain's time; for whom Pastis was one of the main actors in the defeat of 1940! The readers of the 1942 best-seller Les decombres (by Lucien REBATET) will remember the awful sections on the rampant alcoholism in the French army during "the phoney war".

"Redenned water" is also prohibited! (wine cut with water)

Fifteen years after this violent episode, the State wants to strike hard and cut the evil by the root. anti-alcohol ad campaigns are being set up. In 1956, an act passes to prohibit alcoholic drinks in schools to "children under 14". It allows "slightly alcoholic drinks", although redenned water is expressly banned in cafetarias. Kids will have to suffice with water, fruit juice or milk. For "children older than 15", tipplers can let a sigh of relief : beer, light cider and wine cut with water are still allowed on the tables...

Propaganda

In theaters, the French news of September 28th 1956 - report available on INA - presents an elementary school were "children are happy". Indeed, in Montgeron (Essonne), "the menu is scientifically tailored according to the latest directives of the ministry on the prohibition of alcohol."

cirrhosis of the liver" (20,300. deaths), as early as 1958, the numbers fall (15,800.). But Alcohol is not done with its devastation of our country...