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Champagne, a wine, which derived its name from the province of France where it is chiefly manufactured. White and red champagnes exist, and they are designated "sparkling" or "still," according to whether they effervesce or not on uncorking...


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This Encyclopedia is made up of information from the late 1800s. when the British Empire was at its height, before airplane travel, before automobiles were common and before the western world had been battered by two world wars.