Champagne was a province in the northeast of the Kingdom of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name in modern-day France. The County of Champagne, descended from the early medieval kingdom of Austrasia, passed to the French crown in 1314. Formerly ruled by the counts of Champagne, its western edge is about 160 km (100 miles) east of Paris. The cities of Troyes, Reims, and Épernay are the commercial centers of the area. In 1956, most of Champagne became part of the French administrative region of Champagne-Ardenne, which comprised four departments: Ardennes, Aube, Haute-Marne, and Marne. From 1 January 2016, Champagne-Ardenne merged with the adjoining regions of Alsace and Lorraine to form the new region of Grand Est. Etymology The name Champagne, formerly written Champaigne, comes from French meaning "open country" (suited to military maneuvers) and from Latin campanius meaning "level country" or "plain" which is also the derivation of the name of the Italian region of Campania. The toponym dates back to the Renaissance describing its vast chalk lined flat landscape. History In the High Middle Ages, the province was famous for the Champagne fairs, which were very important in the economy of the Western societies. The chivalric romance had its first beginnings in the county of Champagne with the famous writer Chrétien de Troyes who wrote stories of the Round Table from the Arthurian legends.

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Notable quotes

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Champagne by Giles Fallowfield, W. Craig Cooper. — Princeton Architectural Press, 2013 (or Mark Twain? Swallow This: The Progressive Approach to Wine by Mark Phillips. — Board and Bench Publishing, 2016)
“We had champagne … what was the governor's compared with it? — no better than cider. Just fancy, not Cliquot but a special Cliquot-Matradura which means double Cliquot.”
— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, 1835
“CHAMPAGNE. The sign of a grand dinner. Pretend to despise it, saying: 'It isn't really a wine.' Arouses the enthusiasm of the lower orders. Russia drinks more of it than France. The medium through which French ideas have been spread throughout Europe. During the Regency people did nothing but drink champagne. But one doesn't drink champagne: one 'sips' it.”
— Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas
“In those days we drank nothing but champagne — if we had no champagne we drank nothing at all. We never drank vodka, as they do now.”
— Leo Tolstoy, After the Dance, 1903 (translated by Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright)
“If you drink champagne in the morning, you must be an aristocrat... or a degenerate!”
— The Diamond Arm, 1969
“When a man says no to champagne, he says no to life.”
— The Deer Hunter, 1978

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Notable quotes

“Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Champagne by Giles Fallowfield, W. Craig Cooper. — Princeton Architectural Press, 2013 (or Mark Twain? Swallow This: The Progressive Approach to Wine by Mark Phillips. — Board and Bench Publishing, 2016)
“We had champagne … what was the governor's compared with it? — no better than cider. Just fancy, not Cliquot but a special Cliquot-Matradura which means double Cliquot.”
— Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls, 1835
“CHAMPAGNE. The sign of a grand dinner. Pretend to despise it, saying: 'It isn't really a wine.' Arouses the enthusiasm of the lower orders. Russia drinks more of it than France. The medium through which French ideas have been spread throughout Europe. During the Regency people did nothing but drink champagne. But one doesn't drink champagne: one 'sips' it.”
— Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s Gustave Flaubert - Dictionary Of Accepted Ideas
“In those days we drank nothing but champagne — if we had no champagne we drank nothing at all. We never drank vodka, as they do now.”
— Leo Tolstoy, After the Dance, 1903 (translated by Charles Theodore Hagberg Wright)
“If you drink champagne in the morning, you must be an aristocrat... or a degenerate!”
— The Diamond Arm, 1969
“When a man says no to champagne, he says no to life.”
— The Deer Hunter, 1978

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Champagne was a province in the northeast of the Kingdom of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name in modern-day France. The County of Champagne, descended from the early medieval kingdom of Austrasia, passed to the French crown in 1314.

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Champagne was a province in the northeast of the Kingdom of France, now best known as the Champagne wine region for the sparkling white wine that bears its name in modern-day France. The County of Champagne, descended from the early medieval kingdom of Austrasia, passed to the French crown in 1314. Formerly ruled by the counts of Champagne, its western edge is about 160 km (100 miles) east of Paris. The cities of Troyes, Reims, and Épernay are the commercial centers of the area. In 1956, most of Champagne became part of the French administrative region of Champagne-Ardenne, which comprised four departments: Ardennes, Aube, Haute-Marne, and Marne. From 1 January 2016, Champagne-Ardenne merged with the adjoining regions of Alsace and Lorraine to form the new region of Grand Est. Etymology The name Champagne, formerly written Champaigne, comes from French meaning "open country" (suited to military maneuvers) and from Latin campanius meaning "level country" or "plain" which is also the derivation of the name of the Italian region of Campania. The toponym dates back to the Renaissance describing its vast chalk lined flat landscape. History In the High Middle Ages, the province was famous for the Champagne fairs, which were very important in the economy of the Western societies. The chivalric romance had its first beginnings in the county of Champagne with the famous writer Chrétien de Troyes who wrote stories of the Round Table from the Arthurian legends.

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