Sauzay, A. (Alexandre), 1804-1870 · London, S. Low, son, and Marston · leaf 146
MARVELS OF GLASS-MAKING, suited various writers, and have found the following passage in the work of Contant d'Orville {^Precis d'tme liistoire ge- nerale de la vie des Francois, page 66). In the sixteenth century the wine of Ay was so renowned, that the Emperor … llllllillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllHIIIII^^ Fig. 29 — VENEI IAN t;LASS. Charles V., Pope Leo X., Francis L, and Henry VIII., king of England, sought after this wine as a real nectar ; and there is a tradition in the province that each of these great sovereigns bought a piece of…
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