Instead, the drink's unlikely namesake is the French 75 field gun used during World War I - a weapon equally as powerful as the gin and champagne cocktail. Kapow! In simple terms, a French 75 is a ...

The French 75 cocktail recipe was invented at the beginning of the century in Paris’s legendary New York Bar (later renamed ...

I don’t mean the cocktail, I mean the cannon. Before gin and Champagne ever got involved, the French 75, officially “Matériel de 75 mm Mle 1897,” was a 2,700-lb field gun rolled out by the French to ...