The best thing to happen in Champagne since the restoration of the bombed-out Reims cathedral after the Armistice is the rise of the grower Champagne movement.

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There was a glimmer of regret when I finally got to Reims Cathedral, where there was no one with whom to marvel at the incredible story of Joan of Arc.

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