Champagne lost people, vineyards, buildings and markets as a result of vicious fighting during World War One.
Don and Petie Kladstrup, writing in their book Champagne, described World War One as Champagne's ‘darkest hour'.
They wrote, ‘of all the terrible moments in Champagne's long history, none was more catastrophic than World War One.'
Champagne quickly found itself on the frontline between the German and Allied armies in autumn 1914 and was thereafter at the centre of the bloody war of attrition that continued for another four years.
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