Wine related tokens

[redwine]

Oh yes! 
ST LUNDI
VIVE LE VIN ET LES GIGOLETTES

Gigolette is a small leg or stew.  So I'm going to translate as 'Long live wine and short legs.'
I was hoping it would read  'Long live wine and loose women.' Ah well

3.7g
25mm
Dodecagonal
Zinc

[MORGENSTERNN]

Oh yes! 


Gigolette is a small leg or stew.  So I'm going to translate as 'Long live wine and short legs.'
I was hoping it would read  'Long live wine and loose women.' Ah well

In french "gigoulette" is a " Jeune fille délurée, de mœurs faciles, fréquentant les bals populaires. "
That could be translate as "Bold girl, of easy customs, frequenting local dances."
So you was not far away with your first impression

[malj1]

A female form of gigolo ?

[redwine]

Female gigolo, I like it!  Many thanks guys 

[constanius]

Female gigolo, I like it! 

Many men do

St. Lundi was a day of leisure, in 19th century France, for those that worked on Sunday, not a wine I believe or if it is it is used as a pun.

Hence a day to enjoy in the garden with family or if a young man to enjoy with wine and a young women.

"During a large half of the XIX th  century, the custom to be unemployed Monday, called Saint Monday, taking a new extension in France as part of the first industrialization. This custom which exists mainly in the artisanal character in industry, then changes character following the development of the work of Sunday, Monday nonworking time becomes self that also serves gradually to political and union activities. This latter circumstance is this custom, frowned upon for centuries, the wrath of the religious elites, economic, moralists and philanthropists. By contrasting the virtues of work, family, sobriety and thrift, they will fight it vigorously, especially after the Commune"

[redwine]

Very interesting and informative, thanks Pat 

[constanius]

This is a google translation for the token,

"The medal is strictly a token (copper) which was to serve at meetings of a company or bacchanalian kids, but we do not know where or when.
At right, the legend saint Monday, the saint standing, dressed in a cobbler like the picture, holding the pitcher of the right hand and a glass in his left hand. In the background, right, a woman - a gigolelte - sleeping with his head on a table. In the third, on the left, two drinkers are seated.
On the reverse with the inscription live the wine and gigolettes the saint standing with a pipe in his right hand, and giving the left arm to the gigolelte slumbering just now on the table. In the background, left, a cabaret.
If the scenes represented here are not already explained the word gigoletles it would be enough to open the dictionary of the language green, Alfred Delvau, where we read this article (Édilion 1883, p 206.)
"Gigolette, sf Young girl who threw her modesty and her honor by the winds, and which consist honor to go play jigs [slang term for" legs "] at public balls, especially balls barrier .... "Mr. Delvau gives the male of this noun" Gigolo, sm male of . gigolette this is a teenager, a small man ... "to avoid stress gigolo, we see that the gigolelte holds closely to the grisette middle of this century. Mr. Delvau think the terms of gigolelte and gigolo are in use "for fifteen years": it certainly mistaken, for the costumes of our chip, such as the image of Epinal, reminiscent of nearby 1830.
Note that, in the token as in the picture, Holy Monday is represented by cobbler. Why this costume 1 II reflects a phrase in its dictionary Littré (sv Monday) quote from a writer of the XVI "century Oudin, Sightseeing françoises : " do the Monday cobblers "that is to say, not to work on Monday. the cult of St. Monday would therefore cobblers extended to other trades. The cobbler, working without a boss, and isolated, and probably less busy, could most easily double on Sunday, and will return to his stall that Tuesday"

Grisette = a young working-class Frenchwoman.

[redwine]

More interesting and more informative, you surpass yourself Sir.    I salute you with a glass of wine and I think I'll chase the Mrs around the garden!

[constanius]

I should have said that the quote was from a 1891 book, Melusine, Volumes 5-7 , 1891.  Which obviously makes the token pictured in it older.

https://books.google.ca/books?id=8ILlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=St.+Lundi+gigolettes+vin&source=bl&ots=plkb6mVM3D&sig=iHtQgol6CubyhY5VntUqnK6NQnA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiC6dGd44fPAhXD2D4KHd_2DJ8Q6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&q&f=false   

[malj1]

Interesting and until I looked up that link to the book I had forgotten we were talking about wine. 

[redwine]

I found this brass version in the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.  A satyrical piece
And it appears they have a few facts wrong in the description! 

[redwine]

Latest snaffle 

SYNDICAT DES VINS / VERSAILLES / BESCHER
FONDÉ / EN  / 1871
c1900
Bronze
Medal aligned
9.95g
27.5mm

Another version is available on ebay at this very mo (different flourishes on obverse)

[redwine]

ANC. ETS FREMY Fils / MERCI / THEVENON
Consimilar
Coin aligned
Aluminium
21mm
1g

Wine & Spirit merchant, distiller. 
Many thanks to Afrasi for the heads up 

[redwine]

2.6g
18.2mm
Medal aligned
· NOËL · / VINS / ET / TABAC / BOULOGNE s/s
30c / (Francis Cartaux makers mark) / A / CONSOMMER

I think BOULOGNE s/s refers to Boulogne-Billancourt - Boulogne sur Seine.
Bit of a puzzle?  Is this a slot machine token with advertising or a disount token or both?
Still, it's a first for me

[Figleaf]

Boulogne s/s is now Boulogne-Billancourt in the Paris region, famous for its has-been car factory. Both additions are to distinguish it from Boulogne-sur-mer in the département de Pas de Calais, famous for its ferry port.

Peter