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It was thanks to champagne, with its silvery foam, that vine-growers were able to live comfortably and merchants were able to make their fortune. In a hundred years annual production had increased from , bottles to 25 million. Let us now consider the explanation in commercial terms for this remarkable success. It was primarily the logical result of the factors examined in the last chapter, namely the dynamism of the two professions, the technical progress that enabled quality and price to be brought under control, and the success both in France and abroad of a highly appealing image.
Champagne also benefited from a period in history which, albeit with some ups and downs, was overall extremely favourable. Profiting from the freedom of trade that followed the Revolution, France, like the rest of the civilized world, entered an era of general economic expansion, and of new wealth that gave greater purchasing power to an increasing number of consumers. A product such as champagne could only succeed. However there were times when this success was tempered and over the course of the nineteenth century there was no shortage of crises.
The wars of the Empire, following those of the Revolution, made transactions and transport precarious. The trade in wines, wrote Mennesson, as a natural consequence of the long war of the Revolution, is lacking in export opportunities and as the result of the no less serious effect of an extreme shortage of legal tender is also lacking in internal sales, while vineyard owners are seeing their revenues decrease and their expenses increase in equal proportions.
Madame Clicquot received a letter from England from Monsieur Bohne in , complaining of the unfavourable circumstances which have reduced the number of customers in the luxury goods market. This discomfort was further increased in by the Continental Blockade, which forbade the entry of English ships to all the ports of the European continent.
At the same time the war intensified, resulting in increasingly draconian conscription and spiralling taxes. In Vienna the nobility cannot pay the merchants because their wheat has not been sold for three years, prices have collapsed. He concludes that After plague and famine, paper money is the most terrible of curses.