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CognacTown in the Charente département of western France, on the River Charente 40 km/25 mi west of Angoulême; population (1999) 19,500. Situated in a vine-growing district, Cognac has given its name to a brandy. Under French law the name may be applied only to brandy produced within a strictly limited area around the town. Bottles, corks, barrels, and crates are manufactured here. Francis I of France was born in its castle in 1494.
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| Hunter brought the boat round under the stern-port, and Joyce and I set to work loading her with powder tins, muskets, bags of biscuits, kegs of pork, a cask of cognac, and my invaluable medicine chest. After a capital dinner and a great deal of cognac drunk at Bartnyansky's, Stepan Arkadyevitch, only a little later than the appointed time, went in to Countess Lidia Ivanovna's. Bulstrode had not yet fully learned that even the desire for cognac was not stronger in Raffles than the desire to torment, and that a hint of annoyance always served him as a fresh cue. |
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