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  • Martin Ramin for The Wall Street Journal Camille Savès Brut Rosé, $62 | My recent trip to Champagne revealed a somewhat unsurprising fact: Champenois drink Champagne with their meals.

    Oenofile 2011

  • Originally Champenois, Montréal became the home of my French-Canadien ancestors.

    Archive 2008-05-18 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Originally Champenois, Montréal became the home of my French-Canadien ancestors.

    Montreal de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Manufactured by: Etablissements Champenois (France)

    Chapter 7 1984

  • "Ah, I have it!" exclaimed he, considering them attentively one after the other; "you are Champenois!"

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • In a proceeding chapter we have spoken of M. de Maisonneuve, who was a native of Champenois, and consequently a fellow-countryman of Margaret

    Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois Anonymous

  • Trenchant (Lyons, 1566, 1578 ed., p. 12) also says: "La derniere qui s'apele nulle, ou zero;" but Champenois, his contemporary, writing in Paris in 1577 (although the work was not published until 1578), uses "cipher," the Italian influence showing itself less in this center of university culture than in the commercial atmosphere of

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • Many stories could be told of the stupidity of the Champenois, but this present story will suffice.

    Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896

  • One of these damsels, above all others, pleased the friends and relations of our Champenois, for her beauty, goodness, riches, and so forth.

    Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896

  • To cut matters short, a little time afterwards our Champenois was married; but on the first night, when he was sleeping with his wife, he, never having mounted on any Christian woman, soon turned his back to her, and a few poor kisses was all she had of him, but nothing on her back.

    Cent nouvelles nouvelles L��on Leb��que 1896

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