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EPERNAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 669 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EPERNAY , a See also:

town of See also:northern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of See also:Marne, 88 m. E.N.E. of See also:Paris on the See also:main See also:line of the Eastern railway to Chalons-sur-Marne. Pop. (1906) 20,291. The town is situated on the See also:left See also:bank of the Marne at the extremity of the See also:pretty valley of the Cubry, by which it is traversed. In the central and See also:oldest See also:quarter the streets are narrow and irregular; the surrounding suburbs are See also:modern and more spacious, and that of La Folie, on the See also:east, contains many handsome villas belonging to See also:rich See also:wine merchants. The town has also extended to the right bank of the Marne. One of its churches preserves a portal and stained-See also:glass windows of the 16th See also:century, but the other public buildings are modern. Epernay is best known as the See also:principal See also:entrepot of the See also:Champagne wines, which are bottled and kept in extensive vaults in the See also:chalk See also:rock on which the town is built. The manufacture of the apparatus and material used in the champagne See also:industry occupies many hands, and the Eastern Railway See also:Company has important workshops here. See also:Brewing, and the manufacture of See also:sugar and of hats and caps, are also carried on. Epernay is the seat of a sub-See also:prefect and has tribunals of first instance and of See also:commerce, and communal colleges for girls and boys.

Epernay (Sparnacum) belonged to the archbishops of See also:

Reims from the 5th to the loth century, at which See also:period it came into the See also:possession of the See also:counts of Champagne. It suffered severely during the See also:Hundred Years' See also:War, and was burned by See also:Francis I. in 1544. It resisted See also:Henry of See also:Navarre in 1592, and See also:Marshal See also:Biron See also:fell in the attack which preceded its See also:capture. In 1642 it was, along with See also:Chateau-See also:Thierry, erected into a duchy and assigned to the See also:duke of See also:Bouillon.

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