The Winter of 1709: So Cold the Wine Froze — and 600,000 People Died

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The Winter of 1709: So Cold the Wine Froze — and 600,000 People Died In January 1709, Europe experienced the winter of 1709 — the coldest night in five hundred years. The ink froze inside Versailles. The wine turned to ice in the royal cellars. And outside the palace, the winter of 1709 was quietly