Winston Churchill, the pleasures of a lifetime


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Pigs, caviar, champagne, masonry, casino: Churchill was an epicurean non-conformist with eclectic tastes… Anthology.





By Pierre Dave

> Cigars, which he discovered in Cuba in 1895, are an integral part of Churchill’s image. He eats at least five a day.” title=”“I suppose if I had to live my life again, I would have to avoid smoking. >> Cigars, which he discovered in Cuba in 1895, are an integral part of Churchill’s image. He eats at least five a day.”/>
“I guess if I had to live my life again, I would have to avoid smoking. » Cigars, which he discovered in Cuba in 1895, are an integral part of Churchill’s image. He eats at least five a day.
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EPicurean loving luxury, Winston Churchill loves to eat well, drink a lot, and always the best, but this great emotional also needs to live surrounded by animals, from the small canary to the racehorse through black swans and butterflies . Anthology of his tastes.

Cats and pigs

“Dogs look down on you, cats look down on you, only pigs look you straight in the eye…” likes to say Churchill who often signs “Pig” in his letters to his wife, drawing a little pig in front or in profile. If the most famous of the British politicians of the XXe century feels affinities with the pig race, it is however not an exclusive love. Churchill loves animals in general, passionately, whether it’s birds,…




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