Note 102 — PART I.

Mémoire sur la Manière de cultiver la Vigne et de faire le Vin en Champagne. This work is believed to have been written by Jean Godinot, a canon of Reims, born in 1662. Godinot was at the same time a conscientious Churchman, a skilled viticulturist, and a clever merchant, who enriched himself by disposing of the wine from his vineyards at Bouzy, Taissy, and Verzenay, and distributed his gains amongst the poor. He died in 1747, after publishing an enlarged edition of the Mémoire in 1722, in which the phrase ‘for the last three years’ becomes ‘the last seven or eight years.’ Godinot’s friend Pluche used the Mémoire as the basis for the section ‘Wine’ in his Spectacle de la Nature.