Hello!
I tried a different way of writing the final sentence, and it wasn't accepted by the exercise engine:
"que l'on peut aujourd'hui savourer le champage aux fines bulles qui se connaît dans le monde entier."
I tried this because the English text specified "[that is]" and I thought it was prompting use of "qui" -- is this grammatically in correct?
Hi James,
No, as Maarten says you cannot use the reflexive here.
you could say
le champagne ... ( qui est) connu dans le monde entier
le champagne ... que l'on connaît dans le monde entier
‘Qui est connu’ presumably was, or would be, accepted ? As for using the reflexive “se connaitre” here, it doesn’t seem to fit unless there is an idiomatic use of it that I am unaware of.
https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/connaître/18277
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