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"He noted approvingly that the modern bourgeois and the modern nobleman did not drink to inebriation and kept to delicate wines... Artisans and laborers preferred the local gros rouge, which they swilled in huge quantities, gargling to give it a kick."
—Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre, And Other Episodes in French Cultural History (New York: Vintage Books, 1984), 132
September 22, 2008