Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1910 — HIS FAME IS WRIT IN WINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HIS FAME IS WRIT IN WINE

One of the monuments in Reims that attracts the especial attention of visitors to that quaint city is the statue of Dom Perignon, the discoverer of champagne. He was a Benedictine monk in the Abbey of Hautvilliers and lived from 1638 to 1716. The statue is of bronze, but Dom Perignon may well claim, with Horace, that by his use of “the foaming grape of Eastern France’’ he has raised for himself "a monument more enduring than brass.”