28. Bubbles and beautiful words...

      As Abel Sallé wrote in 1860, in his song "Champagne":
"When you sparkle in my glass
Spiritual and joyful wine
My eye shines, my forehead lights up,
I think more, I speak eloquently".

      Champagne stimulates intellectuals and artists with its euphoric effect and puts them in a better mood to carry out their great works. All of this, without the disastrous side-effects of Verlaine's absinth or the bottle of "aqua fortis", which cost Carl Maria von Weber her voice (prima donna at the academy of Salzburg).

  
 
      Talking about Champagne, and even better drinking it in moderation, gives birth to lyricism. Georges-Michel narrates that, shortly after The First World War, at Serge de Diaghilev's house in Rome, Stravinski served red Champagne to Picasso who exclaimed:
"It is as if Tintoret is in my stomach!"
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      Numerous are the writers who have avoided the unpleasantness of a blank page, the actors and singers who have been helped to shine until the very end of their soliloquy or their aria, or more simply the artists who have sharpened their imagination and eloquence…with Champagne.

      Various books evoke the particular relationships between Champagne and both French and foreign literature. We would like to bring your attention to the following:

Anthologie du Champagne dans la littérature
(An anthology of Champagne in literature)
Note: this book is presently available only in French.
François Bonal 

Dominique Guéniot - Editeur
BP 174 - 52203 Langres cedex

 
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