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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.
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But regions that hadn't traditionally produced much wine,
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for example, Corbieres and Roussillon,
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way down here, that is north of Perpignan,
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around Perpignan and then north of Perpignan,
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begin producing lots of wine;
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and Languedoc,
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that is this region down here becomes a massive producer of wine,