A History of Champagne, with Notes on the Other Sparkling Wines of France

part in the ceremony. Sumptuous festivities marked the coronation of

Charlemagne's son Louis in 816; and the officiating Archbishop Ebbon may have helped to furnish the feast with some of the produce from the vineyard he had planted at Mont Ebbon, generally identified with the existing Montebon, near Mardeuil. It is of this vineyard that Pardulus, Bishop of Laon, speaks in a le...