While the process has long been associated with French wine, the first recorded mention of adding sugar to must in French literature was the 1765 edition of " L'Encyclopedie ", which advocated the use of sugar for sweetening wine over the previously accepted practice of using lead acetate.
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We also bar " lead soldiers " although no one has found much evidence evidence of children being poisoned by them ( " Although department spokesmen say none of the state's thousands of annual cases of lead poisoning has been attributed to model soldiers " ), while lead acetate in paint definitely caused problems as children found it to taste sweet.
