Qui chascun jor viant boire vin.’
‘Champagne est la forme de tout bien
De blé, de vin, de foin, et de litière.’
[45] ] Mss. de Rogier, Max Sutaine’s Essai sur le Vin de Champagne, &c.
[46] ] This wine, no doubt, came from a considerable distance round, for we find P. de la Place, a mercer of Reims, seeking in 1409 to recover the value of five queues and two poinçons ‘of wine from the cru of the town of Espernay, on the river of Esparnay,’ delivered at Reims to J. Crohin of Hainault, the origin of the same being certified by S. de Laval, a sworn wine-broker, ‘who knows and understands the wines of the country around Reims.’
[47] ] Varin’s Archives Administratives de Reims.
[48] ] Max Sutaine’s Essai sur le Vin de Champagne.
[49] ] Varin’s Archives Administratives de Reims. The Hôtel de la Maison Rouge occupies to-day the site of the old hostelry at which the parents of Jeanne Darc were housed.
[50] ] Varin’s Archives Administratives de Reims.