A History of Champagne, with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France

by Henry Vizetelly

[225] ] H. Taine’s L’Ancien Régime.

[226] ] Instructions of local directeurs des aides, quoted from the Archives Nationales by Taine.

[227] ] H. Taine’s L’Ancien Régime.

[228] ] Les Célébrités du Vin de Champagne, Epernay, 1880.

[229] ] H. Taine’s L’Ancien Régime. At Rethel a poinçon of the jauge de Reims paid 50 to 60 francs for the droit de détail alone.

[230] ] Arthur Young’s Travels in France in 1787–9.

[231] ] H. Taine’s L’Ancien Régime.

[232] ] Crebillon the younger’s Les Bijoux Indiscrets.

[233] ] A MS. account of the wine culture of Poligny in the Jura states that in 1774 attempts were made to imitate the gray and pink wines of the Champagne, then selling at 3 livres 10 sous the bottle.

[234] ] Erckmann-Chatrian’s Histoire d’un Paysan.