The Brandy Trade under the Ancien Regime : Regional Specialisation in the Charente (Hardcover)

Preface; Abbreviations; Glossary; 1. The emergence of brandy spirits; 2. Brandy and the French economy; 3. Brandy: the distilling process, the product and the industry; 4. Brandy production and internal trade in France; 5. Competing markets: Parisian and foreign demand; 6. The merchants of the brandy regions; 7. The Cognac brandy trade: 1720s?60s; 8. External challenge in the 1760s: vicissitudes of old and new houses 1762?78; 9. Brandy business in Bordeaux and Cognac in the 1780s; Sources; Bibliography.