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AN INEVITABLE GUIDE, A UNIQUE CONCEPT Between pleasure and emotion First the result of a rigorous selection, in total independence, this Champagnes guide aims at highlighting Champagnes of high-end expression, source of intense emotions and pleasure when tasted. These 100 Champagnes represent a terroir, a genuine savoir-faire, and a true passion. Here, no ranking, hierarchy, marks, blind tastings, intended to reassure the reader and be a proof of honesty and exactitude. How can we give a mark to a pleasure, an emotion? No, just “Favourites” that translate the emotions and pleasure felt by the tasters who, on the contrary, have the maximum of information about the tasted Champagne, to bet...
The emergence of the northern French county of the Perche, and the rise of the Rotrou family from obscure origins to princely power, 11-13c.
Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors—the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family—were critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightly families into an aristocracy with shared customs, institutions, and identity. Evergates mines the rich, varied, and in some respects unique collection of source materials from Champagne to provide a dynamic picture of a medieval aristocracy and its evolving symbiotic relationship with the counts. Count Henry the Liberal (1152-81) began the process of transforming a quasi-independent baronage a...
An inevitable Guide, a unique concept Between pleasure and emotion The fruit of a rigorous selection, in total independence, result of loads of tastings, this guide is intended as an open door to enter the intimacy of the Champagnes and to appreciate the pleasures and feelings they provide. This Champagnes Guide is above all an essential book that accompanies the amateur of Champagnes in his discovery of the infinite wealth of the Champagne area through the 92 selected cuvées. The VERON Champagnes Guide takes you into its unlimited quest of the fabulous diversity of the Champagne area and invites you to penetrate the secrets of the creation of the cuvées, traditional Champagnes, extraordin...
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The Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy provides a chronology starting with the year 495 and continuing to the present day, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, events, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, society, economy, and politics. This book is a must for anyone interested in the British monarchy.