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Melon de Bourgogne grapes during flowering. Melon de Bourgogne (French pronunciation: [məlɔ̃ də buʁɡɔɲ]) or Melon (ⓘ) is a variety of white grape grown primarily in the Loire Valley region of France. It is also grown in North America. It is best known through its use in the white wine Muscadet.
It is made from the Melon de Bourgogne grape, often referred to simply as melon. While most appellation d'origine contrôlée wines are named after their growing region, or in Alsace after their variety , the name Muscadet refers to an alleged characteristic of the wine produced by the melon grape variety: vin qui a un goût musqué (wine with ...
With the English claim to the throne of France, the influence of the language in use at the French royal court in Paris increased. French cultural influence remained strong in the following centuries, and from the Renaissance onward, most borrowings were from Parisian French, which became the de facto standard language of France.
Melon (apple), a dessert apple; Melon (cetacean), a mass of adipose tissue in the forehead of toothed whales; Melon (chemistry), a polymeric derivative of heptazine; Melon de Bourgogne, or Melon, a white grape variety; Melon Bicycles, a folding bicycle manufacturer "Melon", a spoken word piece from Ten in the Swear Jar's Accordion Solo!, 2005
The BBC Pronunciation Unit, also known as the BBC Pronunciation Research Unit, is an arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) comprising linguists (phoneticians) whose role is "to research and advise on the pronunciation of any words, names or phrases in any language required by anyone in the BBC". [1]
They have a texture similar to that of marzipan, but with a fruitier, distinctly melon-like flavour. They are often almond-shaped and are typically about five centimeters (two inches) in length. Calissons are traditionally associated with the town of Aix-en-Provence, France, and most of the world's supply is still made in the Provence region.
Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (French pronunciation: [buʁɡɔɲ fʁɑ̃ʃ kɔ̃te] ⓘ; lit. ' Burgundy-Free County ' , sometimes abbreviated BFC ; Arpitan : Borgogne-Franche-Comtât ) is a region in eastern France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions, from a merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté .
Autun (French: ⓘ) is a subprefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of central-eastern France.It was founded during the Principate era of the early Roman Empire by Emperor Augustus as Augustodunum to give a Roman capital to the Gallic people Aedui, who had Bibracte as their political centre.