Tilar J. Mazzeo
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.49 | 3758 Users | 590 Reviews
Identify Appertaining To Books The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
| Title | : | The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It |
| Author | : | Tilar J. Mazzeo |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | October 28th 2008 by Harper Business |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Biography. History. Alcohol. Wine. Food and Drink. Food. Cultural. France |
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The Widow Clicquot is the New York Times bestselling business biography of the visionary young widow who built a champagne empire, became a legend in her tumultuous times, and showed the world how to live with style. Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life the woman behind the label, Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin, in this utterly intoxicating book that is as much a fascinating journey through the process of making this temperamental wine as a biography of a uniquely tempered and fascinating woman.Mention Books To The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
| ISBN: | 006128856X (ISBN13: 9780061288562) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.49 From 3758 Users | 590 ReviewsAssess Appertaining To Books The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It
The subtitle is all the synopsis anyone needs: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It.Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin was born on the eve of the French Revolution. Her wealthy father read the signs of change and positioned himself to ride the wave, saving his textile business, his homes, his fortune and his family. When Barb-Nicole was of age, she married Francois Clicquot, the only son of another wealthy textile merchant, whose family had begun to dabble in wine. As fate would have
Thin. Based largely on speculation, this book would have made a much better historical novel than biography. Little actual information is known about Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin, so Mazzeo filled in based upon the known history of France (and the rest of Europe) in the 1800s. The details about the history of the wine industry made up most of the solid information and were interesting, but the book was supposed to be about more than that--Ponsardin and the rise of Veuve Clicquot. Additionally, for
I actually doublly enjoyed this book because I drank Clicquot along with the book! Learning about the Widow Clicquot and the challenges she and France faces with Napoleon and the ups and downs of the crops was amazing. Barne-Nicole Clicuot is the ultimate model of a successful woman! Clicquot surged the champagne market to depths higher and mightier than you can imagine...from Russia to America she created a luxury product that bubbles today!!! A must read if in to French history and/or culinary
This biography of a woman and a wine, takes place in the early 1800s, in France, at a time when women did not conduct business, let alone take over their husband's business. However Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin was no oridnary woman. She had witnessed the French Revolution, lived through the Napoleonic Wars, national banking disasters, and the death of her husband, possibly from typhus or by suicide. Monsieur Clicquot had a dream of making a superior champagne, which his young widow was
2019 Read Harder Challenge: 16/24Task #17: A business book.Champagne is always my drink of choice, and my husband bought me this book in anticipation of our upcoming trip to the Champagne region. I appreciated that while this was specifically a business biography about the Widow Clicquot and her empire, there was a lot of interesting historical/contextual information about the region in general, rise of the champagne economy, and influence of the Napoleon Wars on market conditions.The downside
At the face of it, this seems like a good long biography. Until you realize that you've never seen more 'perhaps'es, 'likely's, 'surely's, 'must have's, and on and on, in one place in your life. More that 90% of this book is the author imagining the widow Clicquot's life from little tiny details she gleaned from here and there. 3+ "perhaps" per page is a conservative estimate, not including all the other fluffy imagination words. And yet Mazzeo still tries to present this as nonfictional
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