Découverte de la Champagne dans la Région Grand Est. Tourisme, monuments, gastronomie à Reims, Epernay, Troyes, en Marne, Haute Marne, Ardenne, Aube.
Monsieur de France gives you, each time, the name of the historical region, and the name of the administrative region.
Photo de couverture Cathédrale de Reims par Michelle Williams on Unsplash
Champagne is the most famous wine in the world. Its bubbles have accompanied great events, public or private, for ages. A wine that we have long regretted ... The bubbles ! Before finding them very pleasant and making them the trademark of Champagne. What is its history? How to choose your champagne ? How many bottles for a wedding or a party? All the answers from Monsieur de France are here.
149 meters long. 87 at the highest of the bell towers, the Cathedral of Reims has seen the immense cohort of our monarchs pass by. During the Great War, Reims was besieged and considerably bombed. The result is a city center that has kept beautiful traces of the past, but also a beautiful Art Deco architecture. 288 shells have considerably damaged the Cathedral of the kings of France "it is only a wound" said Albert London in the evening of the war. Thanks to the French and the American help, it has recovered its beauty in the middle of a city which deserves a real stay...
Tourism
Champagne / Grand Est region
How was the coronation of a French king in Reims ?
Jérôme Prod'homme
For centuries, the kings of France came to be crowned in the Cathedral of Reims. A very ancient rite, which met a whole series of obligations and symbols, and which inspired the coronation of the kings of England. Charles III is moreover several times descended from kings who lived this ceremony that we tell you here by taking the coronation, very moving, of an orphan of 13 years: the young king Louis XV...
