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For some reason, there is debate about whether this cocktail should be made with Cognac or gin.

The first published recipe — gin-based — seems to have appeared in The Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930, but 20 years later David Embury wrote, in The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks, “ Gin is sometimes used in place of cognac in this drink, but then, of course, it no longer should be called French .” Embury ignores Champagne ’ s French origins, not to mention the 75-millimeter cannon for which the drink was named.

-July 1960 Issue of Gourmet Magazine