It became an immediate hit with the upper classes in England, who came to like Dutch gin quite as much as they liked French brandy.

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Jean Monnet, a brandy merchant from Cognac, in southern France, and Robert Schuman, the French foreign minister, a lawyer from the disputed region near the French-West German border, worked together on the "Schuman Plan, " which Schuman proposed on May 9, 1950.

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