Champagne Riots
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Champagne - The Catalist
champagne is associated with luxury, but there was great poverty in he champagne region in the early 19 hundreds. Trouble has been fermenting in champagne for at least 20 years before the riots take place. Philoxera ravaged france's vineyards and people tried to cure it by injecting a nerve poison into the soil. But what they had to really do was graft their vines on to the roots of an american vine. And that is the ony cue for philoxera.
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