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where politics sort of came to very ordinary people.
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So, but what you have is an expansion of these places
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that's simply phenomenal.
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And it's hard to say-- I guess it's more accurate to say
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that the expansion in the production of wine
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helps generate the expansion of places to drink,
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along with the expansion of the population itself.
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Between 1840 and 1875
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the amount of wine produced in France doubled
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--now, this is the same time as the population is stagnating
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--and in part this is because there are better roads
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and there's railways to carry wine that's produced to far off places.