Preface
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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.

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