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Perrier-Jouët advertisement from 1923. Perrier-Jouët ([pɛʁje ʒuɛt]) is a Champagne producer based in the Épernay region of ChampagneThe house was founded in 1811 by Pierre-Nicolas Perrier and Rose Adélaide Jouët, and produces both vintage and non-vintage cuvee, approximately 3,000,000 bottles annually, with its prestige label named Belle Epoque.
The St. Louis style bagel refers not to composition, but to a particular method of slicing the bagel. [35] The St. Louis style bagels are sliced vertically multiple times, instead of the traditional single horizontal slice. [35] The slices range from 3 to 6 mm (0.12 to 0.24 in) thick. [36] This style of bagel was popularized by the St. Louis ...
On the 1683 retirement of Henry Du Mont and Pierre Robert the position of maître of the chapelle was divided into four positions: Pascal Collasse (1649–1709), sous-maître from 1683 to 1704, assistant to Lully until 1683, when he won one of the four seasonal assignments into which the Chapelle Royale directorship had been divided.
Casimir-Pierre Périer (11 October 1777 – 16 May 1832) was a French banker, mine owner, political leader and statesman. In business, through his bank in Paris and ownership of the Anzin Coal Co. in the Department of Nord, he contributed significantly to the economic development of France in the early stages of industrialization.
Perrier (/ ˈ p ɛr i eɪ / PERR-ee-ay, also US: / ˌ p ɛr i ˈ eɪ /- AY, French:) is a French brand of natural bottled mineral water obtained at its source in Vergèze, located in the Gard département. Perrier was part of the Perrier Vittel Group SA, which became Nestlé Waters France after the acquisition of the company by Nestlé in ...
Éléonor Jacques Marie Stanislas Perier de Salvert (1748-1783), lieutenant, member of the Académie de Marine, writer, knight of Saint-Louis and senior freemason, founder of The Triple Hope lodge in Port-Louis. Pierre-Étienne de Perier (1893-1968), divisional general and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour.
Most notably, Casimir Pierre Perier (1777–1832), the fourth of Claude's eight sons, became Prime Minister of France in 1831–32 during the Orleanist monarchy of Louis-Philippe I. Casimir's grandson, Jean Casimir-Perier (1847–1907), was elected president of the Third Republic in 1894. Claude Perier was sufficiently wealthy before 1789 to be ...
Étienne Perier was born on February 27, 1686, in Brest in France. [2] [3] A member of the de Perier family, he was the son of Étienne Perier [] and Marie de Launay. [4]His father was a non-noble shipowner and merchant in Le Havre. [5]