1879 Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines

The Reims Establisliments.

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Renaissance window, which formerly belonged to some of the clergy of the cathedral, and subsequently became the "Bureau General de la Loterie de France," abolished by the National Convention in 1793. The Rue des Anglais conducts into the Rue de l'Universit!S, where a few remnants of the old University, founded by Cardinal Charles de Lorraine (1538-74), att~·act attention, notably a conical-capped corner tower, the sculptured ornameJ;J.ts at the base of which have ·crumbled into dust beneath the corroding tooth of Time. From the Rue de l'Universite our w:ay lies along the Boulevard du Temple to the Porte Gerbert, about a mile beyond which there rises up the cuTious castellated structure in which the Pommery establishment is installed, and whose tall tOwers command a view of the whole of Reims and its environs. As we drive up the Avenue Gerbert we espy on the right an isolated crumbling Roman tower, a remnant of the days when Reims disputed with Treves the honour of being l