[133] ] Ibid.
[134] ] Max Sutaine’s Essai sur le Vin de Champagne.
[135] ] Mémoire of 1718. The perils to which it was exposed during this transit are pointed at in a letter to the elder Bertin from a customer in Paris in 1689: ‘I thought it better to wait before giving you any news of the wine you sent me until it was fit to drink. I tapped it yesterday, and found it poor. I can hardly believe but that the boatmen did not fall-to upon it whenever they had need, and took great care to fill it up again, for it could not have been fuller than they delivered it.’
[136] ] Pluche’s Spectacle de la Nature, 1732.
[137] ] Mémoire of 1718.
[138] ] Louis Perrier’s Mémoire sur le Vin de Champagne. In the Mémoire of 1718, Ay, Epernay, Hautvillers, and Cumières are alone classed as Vins de Rivière; Pierry, Fleury, Damery, and Venteuil being reckoned only as Petite Rivière; and there being no mention of Avize and the neighbouring vineyards.
[139] ] As at Vertus, where the red wine, so highly esteemed by William III. of England, was replaced by sparkling wine.
[140] ] Max Sutaine’s Essai sur le Vin de Champagne.
[141] ] Ergo vinum Belnense potuum est suavissimus, ita et saluberrimus.
[142] ] An vinum Remense sit omnium saluberrimum.