OF PONTARLIER (DOUBS)

Recent lawsuits concerning our best champagne houses

reveal quite curious facts, and, extremely fortunately, an

energetic repression has arisen to derail the schemes of many

audacious shysters.

The House of Pernod and Sons was not to escape the

common law; for some years a number of firms have emerged,

proudly raising either the name of Pernod, or a name which

resembles it as much as possible.

Did we not see a simple stable boy named Pernod

making money by authorizing a manufacturer of absinthe in

Drome to plaster his name on their labels!

Even more recently a distiller of Doubs, under pretext of

a contract signed by a traveling salesman named Pernot, seized

the name and flooded Paris and the province with his product

which, evidently, would have gone over with great difficulty

without this trickery.

The civil Court of the Seine, taking up the question, did

not hold as legitimate this very ingenious procedure and prohi-

bited its use. Its judgement will certainly be confirmed by the

Appellate Court of Paris which will not be long in intervening.