[474] ] Circa 1590.
[475] ] Théâtre de l’Agriculture et Mesnage des Champs (1600).
[476] ] Published at Orleans, 1605. As regards the price of the newly-made wine of Ay at this epoch, Jehan Pussot says that, in 1604, it fetched from 25 to 45 livres; in 1605, from 60 livres upwards; and in 1609, from 100 to 120 livres, at the epoch of the vintage.
[477] ] Chaulieu says that St. Evremond
‘Ne chante dans ses vers heureux
Que l’inconstance et la Tocane’—
Tocane being usually made of the wine of Ay.
[478] ] St. Evremond’s Works (London, 1714).
[479] ] Chaulieu extols the Tocane of Ay, and some verses of Voltaire have been quoted on p. [61].
[480] ] Arthur Young’s Travels in France in the Years 1787–8–9.