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Moët & Chandon is a French champagne house founded in 1743, known for being the world’s most prestigious and best-selling champagne. The brand is famous for its signature Brut Impérial and for being the official champagne of celebrations, from royal courts to Hollywood award ceremonies.

Interesting fact: During World War II, the Moët & Chandon cellars in Épernay were used as a hiding place for priceless French art — including works from the Louvre. The Nazis never found them. But the most bizarre part? The house’s head cellarman at the time, a man named André Lhôte, was secretly sending coded messages to the French Resistance through the labels on champagne bottles. A single star on a label meant one thing; a different symbol meant another. The Germans drank the champagne while the Resistance read the bottles. To this day, those bottles are called “the silent messengers” of Champagne.