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Life in Rheims cellars: Christmas underground.
Unknown, 1915, Press cutting
Life in Rheims cellars: Christmas underground.
Life in Rheims cellars: Christmas underground.
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32340
Title
Life in Rheims cellars: Christmas underground Midnight Mass and "Home" in wine vaults
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Double page from the Illustrated London News published January 9th 1915.
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Unknown
Date
1915
Size
39.6 x 45.4 cm
Type
Press cutting
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Reference Library
Wine cellars of a celebrated Champagne district were adapted and fitted out as chapels for Christmas Mass. In the Rheims cellars an improvised alter was erected, with seats for the congregation provided by standing wine cases on the end of rows.
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