The Great Comet of 1811 & Vin de la Comète.Mentionedin Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz and in Les
The Great Comet of 1811 & Vin de la Comète.Mentioned in Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz and in Les Misérables by Victor Hugo, the Great Comet of 1811 also appears in Alexander Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin as well as Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace where Pierre observed the "enormous and brilliant comet […] which was said to portend all kinds of woes and the end of the world”. Being reffered to as Napoleon’s Comet it was thought to have forshadowed Napoleon’s invasion of Russia and the War of 1812. The year 1811 turned out to be particularly fine for wine production, and merchants marketed Comet Wine at high prices for many years afterwards. -- source link
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