From the beginnings to AD 1000
The middle ages: 1000-1500
New wine, new regions: 1500-1700
Enlightenment and revolution: 1700-1800
Stability and growth: 1800-1870
Phylloxera and renewal: 1870-1914
Pinard and postwar France: 1914-1930
From depression to liberation: 1930-1945
French wine reinvented: 1945 to the present.