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Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour, style, and luxury. But who was simply this young widow-the Veuve Clicquot-whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and exactly how did she grow to superstar and fortune? In The Widow Clicquot, Tilar J. Mazzeo brings to life for the first time the fascinating woman behind the iconic yellow label: Barbe-Nicole Clicquot Ponsardin. A young witness to the remarkable happenings of the France Revolution and a fresh widow during the chaotic years of the Napoleonic Wars, Barbe-Nicole defied convention by assuming-after her husband's death-the reins of the fledgling wine business they had nurtured. Steering the company through dizzying political and financial reversals, she became one of the world's first great businesswomen and one of the richest women of her time. Even though the Widow Clicquot continues to be a story in her local France, her tale hasn't been told in all its richness-until now. Painstakingly investigated and elegantly written, The Widow Clicquot offers a glimpse in to the life of a female who assemble clandestine and perilous champagne deliveries to Russia one day and entertained Napoleon and Josephine Bonaparte on another. She was a daring and decided entrepreneur, a vibrant risk taker, and an audacious and smart woman who had taken control of her own future when fate kept her on the brink of financial damage. Her legacy lives on today, not only through the famous product that still bears her name, however now through Mazzeo's finely built book. All the a fascinating quest through the procedure of making this temperamental wine as a biography of your uniquely tempered woman, The Widow Clicquot is utterly intoxicating.
